" It’s always a risk,” the Elder said, but more quietly now, like perhaps he was no longer speaking to her. “Wherever there is
great emotion. Because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.”
“It was only a kiss,” Tamsin said, focusing back on the owl.
“Oh,” the Elder said, shaking this head, “that is where you are mistaken. Believing that such a thing—just a kiss—has ever, for even a second, existed in this world "

― Morgan Matson , The Unexpected Everything