" Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. "And if I had not met my mate ..." His words failed him as silver lined his eyes. He said down the bond, *I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all of the time we were allowed to have ... The wait was worth it.* "

― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)