Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.

This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest of her.

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.

When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.