“Sometimes love was sacred, the most holy and powerful force in the universe. Sometimes it was a warm, fuzzy feeling. Occasionally it was a wildfire of passion that, like cognac, inflamed every cell of your body.And sometimes it was just a decision, plain and simple.”

“Creating fantasy is real work, important work. It’s a hard, cold world we live in, and sometimes we need to escape. Sometimes we need that more than food or water or a roof over our heads.”

“There's very little in my world that a foot massage and a thin-crust, everything-on-it pizza won't set right.”

“And you, Bloss, may shove it ... sideways ... with barbed wire wrapped around it.”

“Sulien held up the broken spear, one piece in each hand. “A warhammer did this?”“You saw that hammer the Lightning almost hit Addolgar with. And that’s not even the one he uses during battles. That one is bloody huge. Nearly asbig as the bastard’s head.”Her father chuckled and stepped around her. “The only purpose of this spear was to protect you—and it did. Its job is now done.” He started tothrow the pieces into a bin he kept for trash.“Don’t you dare throw that out.”“Why not? It’s broken, and repairing it would be useless. It’l only break again.”“But you made it for me.”“You cling to what is meaningless, child. Just like your mother sometimes, only with her it’s mostly grudges.”

“- Do you ever work? Or do you just walk office to office, soliciting blowjobs?- I work occasionally. It's just that the BJs are much more exciting.”

“His affection for the human grew steadily by the day. Sometimes by the minute. And it wasn’t simply her beauty, but her utter lack of fear of everything and anything except her brother. She didn’t fear dying. She didn’t fear battle. And, most importantly, she didn’t fear Fearghus. She touched him. Ran her hands across his scales and through his mane.But it was when he covered her up with the fur and she sighed his name in her sleep, that he lost his heart.”