“Please, call me Melaina, and I will call you Sinda. Though I have to say, I did not expect to see you… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“You aren’t going to die,” Kiernan whispered through the darkness. We sat in one of the bedchambers for pilgrims, me on the… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I can’t get to Melaina--she doesn’t keep regular rooms at the college. But you could…watch her, follow her maybe. And maybe we… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about him,” Mika said after we had been waiting a time. She sprawled on the ground, her back against the… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I turned the page, but there was no more about the princess. Instead, it went on to an account of a merchant’s… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“He loves you. It’s plain for anyone to see. He came after you, didn’t he? Admitted he was wrong to abandon you?”… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“How could he say this? How could he think that I could just walk away from this? “It matters! If we don’t… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“What are you doing here, Kiernan?” I asked dully. His eyes crinkled up for a second in surprise at my tone. “I… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“He watches you, Sinda. Like you’re his best treasure, only he can’t think of a way to slip you into his pocket.… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“So I really think that your parents should let you marry me. Not right now--I have so much to do, with Mika… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“You really told them you wanted to marry me?” I asked. The smile had taken over his whole face now. “I told… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“You aren’t going to die,” Kiernan whispered through the darkness. We sat in one of the bedchambers for pilgrims, me on the… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I found him, with a little hint from Mika, in the gardens where we had met when I first came back to… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“What did he do?” I whipped around, startled. I had been so immersed in my own thoughts that I hadn’t even noticed… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“You really told them you wanted to marry me?” I asked. The smile had taken over his whole face now. “I told you before:… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“I turned the page, but there was no more about the princess. Instead, it went on to an account of a merchant’s wife and… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“You can’t be just a scribe, or a wizard. Nameless God,” he cried, raking a hand through his hair. “I wish they had never… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“It had been different when I was the princess. Then I had looked at his flirtations with other girls and at least told myself… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's kiss, threw… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“I had worried that he might think of me differently, once he learned about my new powers. That the thought of being accidentally roasted… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“He wouldn’t have forgotten. It might be too much the fear of losing me so much that he had withdrawn his heart to protect… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“I love you, Sinda,” he said, not shakily but with certainty. “I have for--oh, years--before I even knew that I did. I loved you… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“The day they came to tell me, I was in one of the gardens with Kiernan, trying to decipher a three-hundred-year-old map of the… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“You can't be just a scribe, or a wizard. Nameless God," he cried, raking a hand through his hair. "I wish they had never… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“He loves you. It’s plain for anyone to see. He came after you, didn’t he? Admitted he was wrong to abandon you?” I shrugged.… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
“We’ll keep you safe-- I’ll keep you safe.” Kiernan pushed himself up off the bed and came to sit next to me. “Come on,”… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share
