“I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.”
“That should have been my first kiss and every kiss after that.”
“A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm”
“did I mention my first kiss was extracted by someone who never should have been that lucky?”
“I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.”
“And Shalhassan of Cathal realized in that moment, standing between the fair brother and the dark, that he was not going to lead this war after all.”