Quotes from Heather Crews

Their bony branches grew barer with each tearing wind. Their tall, leaning forms looked like a gateway to a long-abandoned world. They lived. Their roots were much deeper than mine would ever be. One day my tree would fall and die, gnawed by serpents.

Don't be sorry. You could hurt me a thousand different ways and I'd love it every time.

I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.

Well, if you don't want me to show you affection in public-" "Do," he interrupted. "Please. Touch me. All the time. All ways.

The low noise he uttered in response sounded very much like a laugh. Her heart bloomed like a flower, for she had almost begun to believe she would never hear such a thing from her husband, and she was so glad she had.

Doubtful she would be so lucky with Dark Arun. Perhaps she would try assassinating him on their wedding night and find out.

Her first thought, in the forest, was that she could not trust Lord Darkon enough to enlist his aid. But with the sprite's life in imminent danger, she would be a fool not to appeal to him. If he declined to help, she would simply look elsewhere and refuse to speak to her husband for the rest of his life.

Beauty was all I'd ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

Hello there," she said. Then she remembered she hated him and frowned. "What are you doing here?" "Your horse returned without you early this morning. I feared the worst." Her heart stuttered, but she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of gratitude. She huffed. "I didn't need you to come rescue me, you know." "And yet here I am.