“Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look at you as someone whos afraid.Thats because every time you look at me, Im looking right back, and t...”

“He thought hed lived through everything. Only now did he realise hed merely existed.”

“Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, every pilgrimage from one end of the earth to the other I was looking for you.”

“Ill never let go of you again, she whispered. I swear it.”

“We have choice, she insisted. This is it. We dont get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones were given...”

“Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistibl...”

“My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friendsIt gives a lovely light!”

“Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama intensified, rarefied, baptized in...”

“He leveled his gaze on herthe intensity there whispering promises she couldnt fathomand she shivered.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I'd be willing to risk everything for it. I wanted to know that ...”

“Do it with passion or not at all.”