“Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them”

“And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.”

“I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.”

“I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” he whispered.“Lucky them.”

“That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.”

“Like chaos in a glass cage.”

“If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.”