"Love is a luxury.""No. Love is an element."An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on."
- Laini Taylor
"She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile ..."
"It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful."
"I...I sang," she whispered, "if that matters," and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbegotten warrior, fiercest of them all, had crouched in an icy stream bed to sing a chimera soul into ..."
"I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melan..."
"I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles."
"Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength."
"It's not like there's a law against flying.""Yes there is. The law of gravity."
"Anyone who takes on my sister," he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered."
"Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat an..."