I’ll start in the air, I said, far more steadily than I thought I could, considering. I knelt to tie the shirt around his thigh, cinching it tight above the wound; he stiffened but let me finish the k...
I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you.
But how… am I a dragon? How are a starman?I don’t think of myself as a , exactly, he said soberly, though I sensed he wanted to smile. His hand released mine, the bridge broken; he moved to hang the...
You speak. It came out as an accusation.When there's someone around worth speaking to.
Lora, beloved. Lora of the moon and sky. are a dragon., sighed the fiend, swelling with delight inside me, filled with an awful, awful recognition. That is , I shouted over them both; rather, I tried...
There were seven of them. They smiled seven identical smiles, and the message behind each was identical, as well. It read:
I’m spending until dawn with you, I said firmly. Don’t bother to argue.God forbid, said Jesse, solemn.I pushed past him into the cottage. He’d been waiting up for me, I could tell. There was a book sp...
You snore.
You’d better marry her before she reaches eighteen and the spell wears off, I said.Spell?Yes. The one that’s hiding her fangs and pincers from plain sight.I don’t find them especially hidden, he said...
I wasn’t even certain if my wings were meant for flight. I hadn’t exactly had any luck with it the one time I’d tried.I could glide, though. Probably.Maybe.Should worse come to worst, I could smoke up...
I think the word is much too small to encompass the magnitude of all it defines. For me, right then, meant that everything within me-my organs, my spirit, my hope-plunged down into a place of utter...
Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?
There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped nake...
I didn’t think students were allowed below the main floor. I knew the kitchens were there, as were most of the servants’ quarters; the professors and Mrs. Westcliffe had their own aboveground wing on...
I would have done anything. Don’t you know that? No.
But Holms had proven stalwart and valiant. When Miss Jones had shown up to discover them in the castle hallway, because she’d heard a suspicious noise and had feared for her schoolchums’ safety, they’...
I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that,...
I’d dreamed once of a forest of gold, and Jesse had done what he could to give it to me. His bedroom had been transformed into a wonderland of leaves and flowers, pinecones and branches of birch and o...
Zane gestured to the table.Did you see what I brun-brought?She shook her head, turning back to the papers. I've read these.Not that one. Nipped it from The Spotted Dog. Last week's news, but I thought...
I pulled at the knot again and heard threads begin to pop.Allow me, Miss Jones, said Armand, right at my back.There was no gracious way to refuse him. Not with Mrs. Westcliffe there, too.I exhaled and...
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