“So why hadnt he confronted me? Why hadnt he torn through my lies and forced me to own up that Id caught him in a Binding? It wasnt like he could just brush this off. And that smile before he left, ...”

“My heart almost vaulted out of my chest. I was snuggled against Ryans shoulder. We were burrowed under the cloak and sleeping bag, and my hand rested on his cheek, about to swat the stray hair that...”

“Adam glanced at me. His grin was back. Id forgotten how easily he could wind me up.You know, Eliza, he said, maybe youre missing something here.Youre going to be missing a few teeth if you dont exp...”

“I remained silent, adrift in a torrent of mixed feelings. The Binding urged me to curl up in his embrace, to lose myself in his scent and surrender to his lips again; however, my own thoughts begge...”

“Impressive deduction, Ryan murmured. You certainly look deeper than most. He brushed back a strand of my hair, and I screwed my eyes shut. He was doing this on purpose. But let me give you some adv...”

“My jaw went slack. Private rooms? Great, the button thing had been a step too far. Either he was totally getting the wrong impressionat least, not the impression I wanted to giveorno. I didnt want ...”

“Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.”

“Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.”

“The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.”

“My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.”

“Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.”

“Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”