I realize now that I won't be any more ready to lose you then than I am right now." He put his hands gently to either side of Alec's face. " Which is not at all.

You wouldn't, because you don't want to die. You don't just live, Cleo. Life itself sings from your existence.

You do not know me if you think I’d hide. I’m in the light. I am free. Where is my beautiful woman? She runs from her heart. Yet you run through my veins. Your fire burns inside me. I run with you.

Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked."Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked.Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.

The truth is only dangerous if it can inflict injury.

Fear and intimidation are tactics that work very well on those who allow themselves to be afraid and intimidated.

Her cerulean eyes widened. "You dream about me?"His gaze snapped back to hers."Nightmares only

Kurtis came to see me earlier," Magnus said, before Cleo could reply. "Do you know why?""To tell you I've quit archery?""No, but it's adorable that you think I'd care about something so trivial.

Ferox et stultus," I said, grinning. "perhaps those are the Howel words as well.""No, yours would be I have a brilliant plan, followed by Blackwood moaning in horror.

Also, I kept thinking about Alex Fierro. You know, maybe just a little. Alex was a force of nature, like the snow thunder. She struck when she felt like it, depending on temperature differentials and storm patterns I couldn't possibly predict. She shook my foundations in a way that was powerful but also weirdly soft and constrained, veiled in blizzard. I couldn't assign any motives to her. She just did what she wanted. At least, that's how it felt to me.