“Please ” I whispered. “Please come back.” There was no one there to hear me.” — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's… — Eilis O'Neal Kiss 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 is pocket.… — Eilis O'Neal Treasure Think Copy Share Image
“He wouldn’t have forgotten. It might be too much the fear of losing me so much that he had withdrawn his heart… — Eilis O'Neal Fear Copy Share Image
“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… — Eilis O'Neal Gardens Kiernan Copy Share Image
“I just want to be me—I just want to be useful and … content. I want to stop wondering if I’ll ever… — Eilis O'Neal Happiness Copy Share Image
“I love you, Sinda,” he said, not shakily but with certainty. “I have for--oh, years--before I even knew that I did. I… — Eilis O'Neal Love Copy Share Image
“I had worried that he might think of me differently, once he learned about my new powers. That the thought of being… — 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 Want Marry 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 Books 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 Gaze Copy Share Image
“I saw a small square of paper, folded over on itself and sealed with a blob of wax from the candle by… — Eilis O'Neal Candle Copy Share Image
“You can't be just a scribe, or a wizard. Nameless God," he cried, raking a hand through his hair. "I wish they… — Eilis O'Neal Cried 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 First time Copy Share Image
“You can’t be just a scribe, or a wizard. Nameless God,” he cried, raking a hand through his hair. “I wish they… — Eilis O'Neal Good enough 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 Family Copy Share Image
“We’ll keep you safe-- I’ll keep you safe.” Kiernan pushed himself up off the bed and came to sit next to me.… — Eilis O'Neal Choked 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 Closing my eyes 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 Dark eyes Copy Share Image
“It had been different when I was the princess. Then I had looked at his flirtations with other girls and at least… — Eilis O'Neal Every day Copy Share Image
“I did not have all the pieces of myself intact but the shattered ones lay quieter than they had gradually being smoothed… — Eilis O'Neal Shattered Copy Share Image
“There’s you,” he said quietly. “I came here to find you. I would have gone anywhere,” he added more stridently. “To Two… — Eilis O'Neal Came Copy Share Image
“Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.” — Eilis O'Neal Children Copy Share Image
“We’ll keep you safe-- I’ll keep you safe.” Kiernan pushed himself up off the bed and came to sit next to me.… — Eilis O'Neal Came Sit Copy Share Image
“So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly. "Of course I will, you idiot," I said… — Eilis O'Neal Eilis Copy Share Image
“He told me, when I felt guilty, that lying to Philantha had been necessary for the good of the country. (I had… — Eilis O'Neal Felt Guilty Copy Share Image
“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
“Still,” I continued, “we don’t have to worry about that until we find the princess. And to do that, I think we… — Eilis O'Neal Family Copy Share Image
“You have something else to do now.” I shook mine back at her, perplexed. “No, I don’t.” Mika fixed me with a… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“So what should I call you now?” he said when we had our breath back. “Savior of Thorvaldor? Soon-to-Be-Master Wizard? Chief Councillor… — Eilis O'Neal Old memories Copy Share Image
“I’d feel a lot better about this if that spell had worked,” Kiernan hissed. “Don’t tell me that I’m going to have… — Eilis O'Neal Desecrate Insisted 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 Gaze Copy Share Image
“There aren’t any pretty women to kiss here, Kiernan, or games to play or pranks to set. No plays to see, no… — Eilis O'Neal Run away 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 Gaze 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
“You have something else to do now.” I shook mine back at her, perplexed. “No, I don’t.” Mika fixed me with a… — Eilis O'Neal Shaking my head 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 Gaze Copy Share Image