Indebted (The Premonition, #3)

by Amy A. Bartol

“I’m sorry! ’Tis a troll, I swear ’tis a troll,” Eion says in a rush.

“Um…Your smile has shades of sweet…It touches me with its heat…” Color floods into my cheeks as my tone becomes pitchy. “The smolder in your eyes…Encircles me with your lies. I am caged by your desire…” I falter for a moment, trying to remember the rest of what I’d sung. “Surrounded by its fire…Love burns as you conspire…it burns like fire.”

“It is love that can sustain the ache of two hearts parted. It is love that will make it rain upon the cheek of the downhearted.”

You can either live above this mess or you can live under it. Embrace destiny or be buried by it.”

“Da ‘Silver Rule’ must be whah ye do when the ‘Golden Rule’ does na work. It must be, ‘Kill all da others before dey kill all of yous.’”

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love…I love thee best, O most best, believe it.

“I would be here without any of that. I’m here because every time she smiles, it’s like Paradise opening up to shine upon me. I’m here because of the way she loves me with no reservations. She doesn’t hold anything back, but gives it all to me as if there was no one else like me in the universe. She has no idea that she alone is the unique being,”

“I don’t know which is more difficult: going on alone to an unknown destination, or having to remain behind to watch the one you love leave. Those of us who have had to remain behind, we know that it’s a cut that never heals…it just continues to bleed—to burn inside of you.”

“And if you were a coin, I’d throw you down a well without making a wish,”

Every man wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.’