Kindle Notes & Highlights
We’d made promises between kisses, neither of us knowing we wouldn’t be able to keep any of them.
Ixi has always been the most beautiful woman I’ve known. And, of all the people between our two worlds, she’s the only one I’ve ever loved.
Icarians are the only species I know that can literally die of a broken heart. I wonder how many she has left. I wonder if, someday, she might let me try to mend them. I never want to hear another one so much as stretch.
“I don’t want the girl you were. I want the queen you are. We were equals then. Things have changed, but that hasn’t.”
“Habit. It’s the only face I’ve wanted to see for so long… I wear it so I can catch glimpses of you, even if it’s only in the mirror.”
Curiosity was Shallon’s greatest strength. I could only pray that hope was mine.
“There is only one truth in this universe, Shal. We belong together. Even if everything is trying to pull us apart.”
She’d told me once that if all of my heartstrings broke, she would give me one of hers.
It glimmers, slick with that wetness, and I want to bury my face in it, but I did that once and almost died.
Diving in head first is for young women who don’t need to wake up in the morning to keep little old men from marching to war.
Shadows mate for life and even though she and I have never said the words… even though we can’t exchange pieces of ourselves the way that Shadows do, she is my mate.
“I love you.” I tip her chin up so I can kiss her but I hesitate, my mouth brushing over her lips. “I’ve loved you for so long it feels like I always did. And I know I always will.”
And I love you too. Even when I was so mad I could have set these chambers on fire, or when I was so sad I thought the last of my heartstrings would snap at any moment… I loved you more than anger or despair could smother.”
