We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!

She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.

You don't have to do this.""I think I do," Julian said. "I remember making a vow to that affect.""Whither thou goest, i will go, whatever stupid thing you do, i shall do also'." Emma said. "Was that the vow?

She remembered what Jem, the ex-Silent Brother who'd helped preside over her parabatai ceremony, had said about what Julian was to her, that there was an expression for it in his native Chinese, zhi yin."The one who understands your music."Emma couldn't play a note on any instrument , but Julian understood her music.

Whither thou goest, I will go;Where thou diest, will I dieAnd there will I be buried:The Angel do so to me, and more also,If aught but death part thee and me.

I'd like that, to have someone who would always watch my back. Someone who I could count on at the times when this scary world gets the scariest

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

Eres heterosexual y tienes bajas expectativas de las figuras paternales. —Probablemente pondrán eso en mi lápida “Era Heterosexual y Tenía Bajas Expectativas.

I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.