The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

by Elizabeth Lim

“Do you think you could try . . . to carve a place in your heart for me?”

“You’d do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”

“Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always,” I began, “through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.”

“Let our strands be ever knotted as we weather joy and sorrow, fortune and misfortune, and pass our years from youth to old age. We are of one heart, honor-bound, and one spirit, whether on earth or in heaven. From now until ten thousand years forth.”

“Your fate is bound to mine now,” I whispered, my lips against his. “Your heart is my own, and where you are is my home. Whatever we face, we face it together.”

“Be it bright or dark, you are the light that makes my lantern shine.”