“You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”

“My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' " She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' " " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?" "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.”

“I can't protect you from knowledge.”

“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”

“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

“Adam wants to know what took you so long?"Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger.”