How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.
Happiness is a choice.
-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.
Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.
He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.
I am Devlin, brother and advisor to the High Queen, assassin, and keeper of order.