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1 " You totally love him. He's your widdle snookums. "
― Thea Harrison , Serpent's Kiss (Elder Races, #3)
2 " Been there, done that. I’m sure I’ve got a T-shirt somewhere to prove it. "
3 " ...he didn’t know when he was going to get the chance to play WoW again. And it was damn important to do his bit to save all life on Azeroth while he could. "
4 " The feeling was a sword thrust as deep as anything he had ever felt, piercing through his body. It seemed like he had been falling for a very long while, and each time he realized it, he had fallen a little deeper, a little further. He had never known that falling in love could be as helpless and complete as this. "
5 " I love you. I didn't want to. I fought it. I put up barriers, and they all came crashing down one by one. It wasn't just one thing. It was everything you did, both here in the present and back in the past. It's everything you were, and everything you are. So I just fucking love you, and you are going to have to fucking deal with it. You got that? "
6 " If you die, I will find you.I will never leave you.I will never let you go.I will not let you fall, or fail. I will always come for you if you leave, always find you if you're lost. Always. "
7 " If you fail somehow--if you die--I will search for a way to walk through time to find you. No matter where you are. No matter when. I swear it.' [Rune to Carling] "
8 " I take it back," Rune said. "You're not an utter heroine. You're a drama queen. "
9 " He poisoned her with affection and compassion, and he taught her what it meant to play again. He gave her hope and tore down her past, all with a fierce laugh in those remarkable eyes. He had already taken her soul on an impossible moonlit flight. She might as well give him her shredded, useless heart too, since she hadn’t been using it all these years. "
10 " I gave them their chance,” she said. “And my give-a-shit button’s broken, baby. "
11 " Just wait until you see what I can do with the fancy stuff, like a bed. "
12 " And we will both sit on the children to make sure they remain safe. "
13 " How like a male. Pull out some tools and start banging on something, and they flocked in from miles around. She pushed her hair out of her face with the back of one hand and scowled at him. "I am perfectly capable of breaking it down myself.""Of course you are," he told her smiling. "That's not what I said. I said may I help? "
14 " His massive head tilted. He regarded her with a gaze made tranquil by the bright sun and the limitless sky.She said in wonder, "You are the riddle.""Of course I am," said the gryphon. "
15 " Oh, fuck Zen,” she muttered. “I’ll get enlightened when I die. "
16 " Are you purring at me?""I might be," Rune said. His deep voice was rougher, and lazy with intimacy. "Unless you've done something wrong. Then I'm growling at you again. "
17 " She had to admit, she was impressed. Not that she was going to commence praising on cue. The eagle in him was perfectly capable of preening his own feathers. "
18 " He said, “What’s in the wardrobe?” She glanced at him. “Books that don’t behave.” Misbehaving books? Not bothering to hide his skepticism, he said, “Uh-huh. "
19 " Politics, n. For the Elder Races, this generally involves bloodshed of some sort and a spate of funerals. "
20 " You could try to surrender to the experience and let change happen.""Change or die?" she said."Yes. Change or die.""You might have noticed, I don't do surrender very well, "
