Love is like a pair of horses. They need to have the same gaits and the same direction. Our Ostfold boys are handsome, but I don't think none of 'em are heading in the same direction as you.

I think you can't get any more idiotic, but somehow every time I see you, you manage it.

Lady Linnea shook her head. "You bring out the good in people, and those who scorn you, you freeze with your eyes and words. So, it's a good thing I am your friend and companion.""Oh?""Yes. I am a sword, dangerous and deadly. And Gemma, I will not hesitate to kill the king to save you," Lady Linnea said, her voice hard.

What was it Grandmother Guri said? To be open to love? I wasn't, and it still got me in the end--unreasonable heart!