I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.

Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.

Everything I could want in eternity is possible because of you," he thought, and then he stopped thinking and simply enjoyed being in the arms of the one person in all of forever who made his life complete.

I like to read the ending first.