"I hate going through this when we just found...," his voice trailed off."Found what?""Each other," he finished, half-smiling."
- Markelle Grabo
"Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill."
"Ah, Zora, you are so naive," the fire fairy said with a hearty chuckle. "You have no idea what happened to them, do you? You have no clue as to what happened to your parents."
"I'm scared, all right?" I said. I could feel my stomach churn as my gaze rested on the wooden trunk.Nathan turned my chin, looking at me with an expression of utter sincerity. "You don't have to be. I..."
"My Zora senses are tingling," I said.Nathan looked at me blankly."Right, you don't know anything about Spiderman," I remembered."Spider who?" he asked."
"He smiled at me, and just like that I was completely happy to be who I was. I knew it wouldn't be easy all the time, but right now it was as simple as sunshine because Nathan was here and had helped m..."
"Then I wondered, what if?What if he kissed me? What if he told me I was beautiful? What if he told me he loved me?What would I say in return?"
"The last book I picked up had a picture of the Stranger on the front cover. Although his eyes were not nearly as beautiful in my dream state, they still took my breath away. I opened it up curiously a..."
"I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet."
"Nothing is more important to me than keeping you safe." - Nathan"