You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity.
A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.
Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.
Some things need to be broken to become stronger.
To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.
An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.
Nothing is stronger than the will of the human heart.
No one goes through life with a whole heart.
He would do things for he’d do for no one else, but while he’d empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him
When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it’s terrifying. What if you take the chance and you’re wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it’s this huge pain and you can’t put it back in the box?
You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.
The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.
You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.
A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. “How fast can you run?” A wolf’s question.
You try to leave and I will hunt you down.” Relief poured through her, but she smacked at his thigh with the back of her brush. “Like a rabid dog? Very romantic.
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.
he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it
Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down her tools. “You can’t be here. The dissonance—” He interrupted her panicked words. “I need to ask you something important.” “What could be more important than your life?” She sounded close to tears. “Your life. If you die, I don’t know if I’d stay sane.” A simple truth.
You”, he said, “are the single exception that rule”. The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence.”Without you, I would be a monster.
it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I’m afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he ‘relocated’ an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.
Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly
