Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –