... Where did you go?” “Down below.” “Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.” Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw. ... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.

Don’t let them see you weak.

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.