Iron Skins and Stone Hearts Quotes

“Try as I might, I could not help but weep for them. And for myself. And for gentle, beautiful Rowan. She would be free, Eagle's silver would see to that, but she had sworn that among her people she would never find love.
"If I died, I would never learn the full extent of her affection. I had been a fool, flirting and offering gifts, when all that mattered was her reaction to the three words I had fairly ached
to say.”
― Nathaniel Firmath, Iron Skins and Stone Hearts