Stardust Child Quotes

“But it had been too late for that before he ever met her. Maybe what she needed instead was for him to make a safe place for her and help her grow, as he did everything else in his valley. He found that he liked the idea. They would both grow, in the years to come.”
― Melissa J. Cave, Stardust Child

“Leonin, I am nothing,” she whispered. “What am I without my father, without Remin? I don’t know anything. I only know how to read because my mother taught me before she died. I’ve been pretending, all this time, to hide it from you.” “But why would you hide it from me?” he asked, bewildered. “Because you think I’m important,” she retorted. “But you don’t know me at all. You don’t know anything about me, I’m not special, I’m not important, I’m not anything, and you want to swear your soul to me!”
― Melissa J. Cave, Stardust Child

“Her Grace has something to show you.” He gave her shoulder a squeeze, resisting the urge to say my wife again. Everyone knew that Ophele was a superior wife. He didn’t need to keep rubbing it in their faces.”
― Melissa J. Cave, Stardust Child

“How did you come to serve His Grace?” she asked when the table was laid, the first polite question that came to mind. Really, she wanted to ask why under the stars they would choose to bind their lives to her, but she sensed she should not lead with that question.”
― Melissa J. Cave, Stardust Child

“The Duke of Andelin had no mercy for buttons. Otherwise, he was perfect. Ophele’s opinion of her husband had shifted somewhat, and now she was firmly convinced that everything before had been a regrettable misunderstanding, and really he was the most amazing man ever to walk the earth.”
― Melissa J. Cave, Stardust Child