“I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never let you go.”

“Don't you understand anything?" He shook her. "It never mattered what you are, or what I should have done. Not since the very beginning. I fought my own uncle to keep you safe. I've fought my own people. I have no intention of letting the demon have you now. You're mine.”

“Maybe all men should have to fight for something sometime in their lives. I'm thirty-three years old and I've never had to fight for a blessed thing, have I?”

“If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”

“I had been brought up to believe that you never told tales, and that you should fight your own battles”

“You never had to fight for me to begin with. I am yours and have been from the moment I saw you”