“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 ...”

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

“She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. Sometimes I really want toa frustrated soundbite you! He froze. I might let you. I wont do it if youd enjoy it.”

“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...”

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

“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...”