1
How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.Eilis ONeal
2
Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.Eilis ONeal
3
So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me, " he said modestly." Of course I will, you idiot, " I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.Eilis ONeal
4
There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.Eilis ONeal
5
If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's kiss, threw it to the ground, and danced on its grave.Eilis ONeal
6
You can't be just a scribe, or a wizard. Nameless God, " he cried, raking a hand through his hair. "I wish they had never found you, never made you think you were the princess. Nothing else, will ever be good enough, not now. You'll never be happy. You'll throw yourself into danger, take it all on yourself, just to prove that they were all wrong about you. And I just- I just-" And without warning, he stepped on front of me, grabbed my shoulders to stop my pacing, and kissed me. .Eilis ONeal
7
Or maybe they weren’t changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.Eilis ONeal