“Xaden comes first for me.” It comes out so self-sacrificial that I half expected my mother to appear and smack me upside the back of my head. “Just so we’re clear. But I will never stop being the woman he fell in love with in order to morph into whatever doormat you think he requires.”

“Xaden comes first for me.” It comes out so self-sacrificial that I half expected my mother to appear and smack me upside the back of my head. “Just so we’re clear. But I will never stop being the woman he fell in love with in order to morph into whatever doormat you think he requires.”

— Rebecca Yarros