“In a brief, surreal moment, she could see the young man he used to be in his smile.”

“He raised his sunglasses and saw a young woman in an impossibly brief dress with an improbably welcoming smile”

“‎Odd how a man who never smiled could make her feel things she didn't know existed. He held her heart in his hands. From the moment she saw him, some thread had linked them together.”

“As she watched him, this tall young man with the new beard and the direwolf prowling at his heels, all she could see was the babe they had laid at her breast at Riverrun, so long ago.”

“He grinned a slow, lazy grin and nipped at my lips. I smiled softly; he looked so young and beautiful and carefree in that moment. Not the CEO who ran a billion dollar company, but a man that looked his age. Playful and sweet…”

“In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.”