“I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.”

“Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.”

“Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.”

“His brown eyes were set back in deep hollows, as though he looked out from a place of shadow on all the verities of the world.”

“You're just afraid," I flung at him. "Of what would happen to you and your life at court if you were to carry Elisandra away. Of what your father would say. Of what Bryan would do to you."Now he, too, looked angry. "I am afraid of many things, but those are not the fears that keep me from action," he said.I turned my back on him. "Then I don't understand you," I said.I heard the door open. "No," he said, "and you never have.”

“I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.”

“My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.”