“Youre in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that loves not a strong enough wordyou have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred ...”

“You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man ...”

“Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.”

“He couldnt say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but hed learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight shed knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. Its fixed. ...”

“A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.”

“She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elementa...”

“I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."He tries to bite my finger.I steal it back.”

“You dont see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.”

“Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.”

“You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man ...”

“Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”