Forgive yourself, but don't forget

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.

What good is strength if you have no sense?

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.