If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

if you were really busy, you could almost forget about it, but when you stopped moving, it was murder

With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

Grace reached over and began stroking her fingers through my hair. I closed my eyes and let her drive me crazy.

Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head fondly before continuing down the aisle. She didn't seem to care that he was fifteen, which was all right, because he didn't, either. Both Ronan and Declan observed this interaction with the pleased expressions of parents watching their prodigy at work.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?