Halfling Quotes

“Love isn’t like the storybooks. Life doesn’t end with ‘the end.’ It goes on, and every love story is different. Some are more difficult than others.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Mate,” he growled, “you are the air I breathe. The beat of my heart. You own me, Sorcha, body and soul.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Sorcha was the river and he was caught in her current. He never wanted to come up for air.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“I go where you go, my mate. You are my home, Sorcha. My clan. I’m sorry I ever made you doubt it.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Loving him was easy. Love, their love, would be a choice every day. And she chose him.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“That he would kill for her, die for her, and most especially he would live for her.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“She’s my mate,” he hissed. And nothing in this world was as vicious or determined as a bonded orc protecting their mate.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“She should have known better. Nobody ever stays.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“I’d finally started to believe that I would be enough.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“She hated that she still never wanted to disappoint her father.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“I don’t want you to wake up one day and realize I’m not worth it.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Loving someone didn’t mean there weren’t times you wanted to occasionally smother them with a pillow.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Because she wanted him to stay with her. Because she wanted him. Fates, I love him.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“No, he couldn’t blame them for looking, for he was just as entranced. That didn’t mean he wouldn’t pluck the eyes from their skulls if they looked too long, though.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“That smile could ask things of him no one else had or would. It was terrifying to realize he’d likely give whatever that smile asked of him.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Darrah.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“I will care for him,” he said. “Perhaps I can return him later. They heal quickly.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“I’ve never truly belonged anywhere. To anyone. But Sorcha, mate, I’m yours. If being part of your clan is what I must do to have you, then I’ll do it. Gladly. Because you are my life now.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“He was hurting and she wanted so badly to make it better—because she loved him, because he was hers. She wanted to claim him, to be the belonging he’d never felt. Orek and this beautiful thing between them were the first things that were truly hers. Not her parents’, not her family’s—hers. She didn’t want to give that—him—up. She could offer him home, love, herself. She wanted to be his place in the world.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“She’d asked him to take her home and protect her—he’d done neither. Why would she want a male like him? A male whose own mother didn’t want him? Just like the boy he’d once been, hoping one day his mother would come back to take him with her; just like the youth he’d been desperate to please and provide for a clan that loathed him and used him…”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling