There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

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

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

Only cowards torture women.