Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' " She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' " " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?" "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.