“You will lose what you value most...It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life.What you value most.It had been his soul.”

“My heart shatters. My world shatters.you will lose what you value most.It wasn't my life or even Dimitri's life.what you value mostIt was his soul.”

“I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”

“The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.”

“He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.”

“But it hadn't just been Sebastian who had been watching me. Rather, it had been tribes of merman and mermaids, who had been curious about this newcomer in town that could outswim any school of small fish.”