Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.