"We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."

She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch.

You‟re my mate. Think you can handle that?” It was hard to speak with her heart bursting open. “Think you can handle me?” “So long as you're gentle with me.”" Emmett to Ria - Whisper of sin

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

To be haunted by my heart is no threat.

Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “get under a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.