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Miguel: Like he said.

Miguel: Stars!

Miguel: Can't do it!

Miguel: Not today!

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Vinzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE!

Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Rhys looked them each in the eye, even my sisters, his hand brushing the back of my own. ‘Do you want the inspiring talk or the bleak one?’ he asked. ‘We want the real one,’ Amren said. Rhys pushed his shoulders back, elegantly folding his wings behind him. ‘I believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is decided by the Mother, or the Cauldron, or some sort of tapestry of Fate, I don’t know. I don’t really care. But I am grateful for it, whatever it is. Grateful that it brough you all into my life. If it hadn’t . . . I might have become as awful as that prick we’re going to face today. If I had not met an Illyrian warrior-in-training,’ he said to Cassian, ‘I would not have known the true depths of strength, of resilience, of honor and loyalty.’ Cassian’s eyes gleamed bright. Rhys said to Azriel, ‘If I had not met a shadowsinger, I would not have known that it is the family you make, not the one you are born into, that matters. I would not have known what it is to truly hope, even when the world tells you to despair.’ Azriel bowed his head in thanks. Mor was already crying when Rhys spoke to her. ‘If I had not met my cousin, I would never have learned that light can be found even in the darkest of hells. That kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty.’ She wiped her eyes as she nodded. I waited for Amren to offer a retort. But she was only waiting. Rhys bowed his head to her. ‘If I had not met a tiny monster who hoards jewels more fiercely than a firedrake . . . ‘A quiet laugh from all of us at that. Rhys smiled softly. ‘My own power would have consumed me long ago.’ Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. ‘And if I had not mete my mate . . .’ His words failed him as silver lined his eyes. He said down the bond, *I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have . . . The wait was worth it.* He wiped away the tears sliding down my face. ‘I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to . . . so I could find you.’ He kissed another tear away. And then he said to my sisters, ‘We have not known each other for long. But I have to believe that you were brought here, into our family, for a reason, too. And maybe today we’ll find out why.’ He surveyed them all again—and held out his hand to Cassian. Cassian took it, and held his other out for Mor. Then Mor extended her other to Azriel. Azriel to Amren. Amren to Nest. Nesta to Elain. And Elain to me. Until we were all linked, all bound together. Rhys said, ‘We will walk onto that field and only accept Death when it comes to haul us away to the Otherworld. We will fight for life, for survival, for our futures. But if it is decided by that tapestry of Fate or the Cauldron or the Mother that we do not walk off that field today . . ..’ His chin lifted, ‘The great joy and honor of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful—more than I can possibly say—that I was given this time with you all.’ ‘We are grateful, Rhysand,’ Amren said quietly. ‘More than you know,’ Rhys gave her a small smile as the others murmured their agreement. He squeezed my had again as he said, ‘Then let’s go make Hybern very ungrateful to have known us, too.’

A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sara J Maas

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*‘Something?’* Lucas said, his lips starting to curve. ‘You describe this as *something*?’ Dorian shrugged a little sheepishly. ‘I didn’t know how to say it.’ Laughing, Lucas wrapped his arms around his neck and hauled him close. Dorian went, returning the hug as fiercely as it was given. When he felt wet against his neck, he realised his alpha -- his *friend* – was crying for joy for him. And damn, fuck, he was crying, too. Drawing back, Lucas grabbed his face in his hands again, kissed him. It was hard, fleeting, and it held the power of the entire pack, Lucas’ veins pulsing with the energy that was DarkRiver. And that energy spoke to his leopard, told it that it was home, that it was welcome, that there was no cause to fear.

Dorian (Wild Embrace Anthology), Nalini Singh

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I love you, Kaia Luna.’ Never had he spoken those three words to a lover. ‘With all of the man I am, the good and the bad, the mistakes and the glories. I love you to the depths of my being, and if tomorrow I don’t wake as me-‘ She pressed her finger to his lips. ‘Don’t.” A shaken word, a fresh wave of tears streaking down her cheeks. Kissing those fingers, he tugged them away gently. ‘No matter what tomorrow brings,’ he said, ‘know that I, Bowen Adrian Knight, belong to you for however long I exist as myself.

Ocean Light (Psy-Changeling Trinity #2), Nalini Singh

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You’re inside my heart and you’re shadow and light and beauty and the best part of me.

Wolf Rain (Psy-Changeling Trinity #3), Nalini Singh

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Feyre: To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.

Rhysand: To the stars who listen — and the dreams that are answered.

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*I love her.* Now he understood what people had tried to tell him. This was what love felt like. But it wasn’t pleasant. It stabbed him with more ferocity than his father had done. Gah, it sucked to realise that someone else meant more to you than you did.

Infamous (Chronicles of Nick #3), Sherrilyn Kenyon

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If. If is good

Panic

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‘I’m fractured inside, Tazi. The scars of childhood should’ve long healed and yet they mark me still.’ Her eyes intent, she broke their handclasp to push up the sleeve of the soft blouse she’d bought from the market. ‘See this?’ She pointed to a scar just below her elbow. ‘I got his when I fell onto a rock while playing with my brother.’ Rubbing his finger over the faded line, he said, ‘A physical scar is permitted. A mental one, never.’ ‘According to who?’ Her fingers delicate against his jaw, the touch a fleeting one. ‘We’re all marked by life, Stefan. The only difference is that your people like to pretend they aren’t, that the Psy go through it coated in protective armour.’ Breath soft against him as their faces drew closer. ‘You’re not fractured. You’re just like the rest of us, living life and getting a few knocks and bumps along the way.’

Echo of Silence (Wild Embrace Anthology), Nalini Singh

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It didn't work out because interspecies relationships are hard. I was human. Whereas she was a demonic hell-beast.

Hunter

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Beckett: You're mad!

Jack: Well thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't this would probably never work.

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Coulson: This is fun, right?

Coulson: Isn't this fun? Look - cufflinks!

Agent May: I will pay you five hundred dollars right now for a pair of flats.

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Do you need anything else before I go check on the device fuelled by evil that's sitting in our cargo hold?

Phil Coulson

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Skye: You haven't taught me to hold up under torture yet.

Grant Ward: We'll get to that it's real fun.

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Maria Hill: What does S.H.I.E.L.D stand for, Agent Ward?

Agent Grant Ward: Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division.

Maria Hill: And what does that mean to you?

Agent Grant Ward: It means someone really wanted our initials to spell out 'shield'.

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I have a cunning plan.

Baldrick