”Tell me the truth of it, Ead. Was it your own choice to lie with me last night, or did you feel compelled because of my rank?”
“Fool,” she said. “I would not be compelled by you or anyone. Have I not always given you truth?”

”Everything I did — everything I was — everything I am, is because of him. He was someone before me. I am no one without him.”

”My mother always said it was best to receive bad news in winter, when everything is already dark. So one can heal for spring.”

”You came,” Nayimathun said. Her breaths were laboured. “You should not have come.”
“I should have come sooner.” Tané lowered her head. “Forgive me. For letting them take you.”
“Someone took you first,” the dragon growled. A tooth was missing from her lower jaw. “You are hurt.”

”I know I have said this to you once before, Sabran, but I would not blame you if you would prefer not to live that way.”
“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”