Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Sometimes being human sucks.