“Thank you, miss …?” “Annabelle.” She dropped a napkin onto his lap and smiled. “And might I say you are a handsome gent. Beautiful green eyes! I can see why Miss Ayden fancies your company!” Kane frowned. “Miss Ayden? Is this the same creepy woman with the gray eyes and weapons arsenal dangling from her hips?” “Why yes, sir. Although, she’s not so scary, once you get to know her.” Anna backed away and clasped her fingers together. “Bit of a sweet spot she has.” She winked. “Yeah. I noticed.”
“Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.”
“Alone in the dark all we have are the supernal lights in each others eyes left to illuminate the room, the only sound our breathing.”
“she s so caught up she s unaware she s no longer the prisoner here, I am”
“Free your mind, Jowendrhan. A cage is only a cage as long as you believe it is.”
“She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, “They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream?”
“The flock mirror the madness of their liege.”
“Your lack of questioning and curiosity has been the bane of my existence.”
“Who knows what real really is...”
“Holding my hands, kissing the palms, his smile is ecstatic, jubilant, adoring, and the song playing speaks for him, “Have you ever seen the light...the way it shines in you.”
“Oh baby, your planet sounds like paradise but it just doesn t fly down here in the trenches.”
“Aye,” he smiles, joy igniting in his stormy gray eyes, stroking my hand possessively as if unwilling to let me go for fear I am nothing more than a hallucination about to wear off.”
“His touch cable knits my veins, remaking and remolding who I am.”
“For why war? Nada ne hurt, sister ne hurt, for why you make vesna sore? For why!”
“The problem with all of you is you think in isolation instead of realizing we are one community, when one of us falls, we all fall.”
“MacKenzie started to look frightened and Valor looked like he was going to kill somebody if they didn t stop scaring his girlfriend. At the same time, Victor looked like he was ready to step in and take control of the situation. And if these suits decided to pull out some guns, I could see where they might end up as a set of life-sized garden gnomes.”
“Everywhere we went, every step we took, girls stopped talking and turned to stare. I d never seen anything like it. But then, I don t suppose they d ever seen anything like Reason. We found two seats together in the middle of the room and sat down while a low murmur of noise filled the lecture hall. It sounded like several hundred girls breathing squee all at once. I figured I might as well get used to it.”