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1 " Then I frown to myself. All of my memories of Hemalo and I in a cave together are unpleasant ones, of me sniping at him or making angry comments. Of him trying to please me and me pushing away his help. Maybe I was never like that, after all. Perhaps I was never a good mate. "
― Ruby Dixon , Barbarian's Hope (Ice Planet Barbarians, #11)
2 " Who sings next?” someone asks.“I will,” Megan says, standing up. She clears her throat dramatically and puts a hand out in front of her like an opera singer. “Me me me me me,” she sings, warming up. People giggle at her theatrics.Her mate Cashol nods. “It is a simple song, but I like it. The words are easy to remember. "
3 " I do not hate you.” Hate is the furthest thing I feel for her. But I know that trying to hold Asha is like trying to hold a handful of snow—the tighter I grip, the more she will trickle between my fingers and disappear. "
4 " Let the world bring what it does. I will take it all on. "
5 " Worrying about what might happen does nothing but make you crazy. "
6 " I am afraid, too.”That is not what I expected him to say. “Why are you afraid?”“The same reasons you are, I imagine. I worry you will hate me and we will struggle again. I worry about the kit we will make. I worry if anything happens to it, it will destroy what we have again.” He kisses my cheek. “But I do know that I am more afraid of not trying. "
7 " You pushed him away.” She lifts her shoulders again in another small, careless shrug. “I’m not going to say being mated to Raahosh is nothing but daisies and kittens. Sometimes you have to make a relationship work. And I’m just saying maybe you should have tried a little harder. He lost his kit, too, you know. "