Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.

She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.

But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.