My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn't want to know how his father had managed that

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.