Your weapons-master appears to have an actual, beating heart," she said to Raphael. "Who knew?" "Jessamy." "I concede that point." Elena referring to Galen

I don’t want to lose my memories. Don’t make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.

Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.

When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.

You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.