The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.