I shall never love any as I love thee, Moonbrow!” she cried. He nuzzled her, very gently. “Nor I you, Ryhenna,” he said. “Tek is my mate. I love her.…

- Meredith Ann Pierce

A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.

- Meredith Ann Pierce

Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.

- Meredith Ann Pierce

They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the lig…

- Meredith Ann Pierce

Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die.

- Meredith Ann Pierce

He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the …

- Meredith Ann Pierce

I thought you had forgotten me.” “I have spent my life remembering you.

- Meredith Ann Pierce