Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone." "I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.

-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.

Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.