“Nothing is stronger than the will of the human heart”

“Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.”

“Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.”

“Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.”

“They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe.”

“You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.”

“He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking.”