I vowed to you that I would change," he says. "I'm trying.

You are painfully human. Your bones want to break, your skin wants to bleed, your heart wants to stop. And for the first time ever, I am desperate for none of those things to happen. I have never known true fear until now.

My wife and her soft heart," War says. It sounds like a genuine compliment.

Love costs even more than power, even more than revenge or hate.

When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.

I came to conquer this land and its people, but instead, one of its people conquered me.

This was crazy. He ate humans for breakfast. Not tomention he was older than Father Time. So why was Ifalling for him, falling for him when I couldn’t help butpush everyone else away? It frightened me to feel thisway, yet I couldn’t stop this and didn’t want to.

This is misery, Sara,” he repeats. “But it is the sweetest misery I have ever felt. I don’t want it to stop.

Love is the greatest gift we can give or receive.