Quotes from Selena Montgomery

Now, she had an innocent client. She hated innocent clients.

Sometimes, we can't trust our own vision. We have to see the good another sees in us.

White blossomed magnolias and cheery songbirds avoided the Red District of Hallden, as had prosperity and hope.

You don't deserve [love] if you won't take care of it.

the expectation of a windfall when the palms of empty hands itched.

Wheedling the borrowed wheels a second time had required an oath nearly signed in blood and a threat of death followed by imprisonment.

She reached the final wooden plank, only to find her way blocked by the boy, whose posture reminded her oddly of Officer Luke. More familiar was his insistence that she do as he wanted. What was it with men in Hallden today?

How could she have imagined he wasn't the one? The one she hid from and looked for. The one who held her and heard her and made her more alive, more in love, than she'd realized. The one who taught her how to trust in and lean on and sink into another person. The one who argued and angered, who stood firm and held tight, who kissed her and touched her and made her see the stars. Adam Grayson was the man she could depend on, could trust. Could love.