“In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight." - Jaime”

“She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.”

“She shivered as he left her to go to the fire, and find water and cloths. He leaned into the light, and brightness and shadows moved across his body. He was beautiful. She admired him, and he flashed a grin at her. Almost as beautiful as you are conceited, she thought at him, and he laughed out loud.”

“An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.”

“Now he [Rattler] was staring at Prairie with an intensity you could light fires with. And she stared back. There was something between them, all right, something cracking with tension and danger, something almost ... alive.”

“He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin.”