S.E. Wendel > Quotes

“Mate,” he growled, “you are the air I breathe. The beat of my heart. You own me, Sorcha, body and soul.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Love isn’t like the storybooks. Life doesn’t end with ‘the end.’ It goes on, and every love story is different. Some are more difficult than others.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Sorcha was the river and he was caught in her current. He never wanted to come up for air.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“That he would kill for her, die for her, and most especially he would live for her.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Loving him was easy. Love, their love, would be a choice every day. And she chose him.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“I go where you go, my mate. You are my home, Sorcha. My clan. I’m sorry I ever made you doubt it.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“So Anna did what she had to do. She gaslit. She lied.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“Mind if I come in?” “Do you have a warrant?” Old habits die hard.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“She hated that she still never wanted to disappoint her father.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Tell me you don’t want me. Tell me that, and I will leave you.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“I’ve never truly belonged anywhere. To anyone. But Sorcha, mate, I’m yours. If being part of your clan is what I must do to have you, then I’ll do it. Gladly. Because you are my life now.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“No, he couldn’t blame them for looking, for he was just as entranced. That didn’t mean he wouldn’t pluck the eyes from their skulls if they looked too long, though.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Whether or not there was anything to hide, whether or not you were guilty of anything, no warrant no entry.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“She wasn’t surprised when he fell down the World War II rabbit hole his second night. He was unimpressed with her lack of knowledge about the merits of different fighter jets.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“Frey was already stone, and he’d positioned himself right in front of the front door, blocking her exit.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“I will care for him,” he said. “Perhaps I can return him later. They heal quickly.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“He was hurting and she wanted so badly to make it better—because she loved him, because he was hers. She wanted to claim him, to be the belonging he’d never felt. Orek and this beautiful thing between them were the first things that were truly hers. Not her parents’, not her family’s—hers. She didn’t want to give that—him—up. She could offer him home, love, herself. She wanted to be his place in the world.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Her freshman year of college, Anna spent every weekend, every holiday in the dorms. She didn’t hear from nor contact her mother.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“Thank Matella and all the Maidens!” Alix crowed. “Tell me they got a pub.” “I should think they do. Most folk want for the same things.” “Well, this folk wants an ale.”
― S.E. Wendel, Aerie

“Darrah.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“It may not even work,” Frey said between kisses. “It better work! I don’t go reciting fae incantations for just anyone.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“She’s my mate,” he hissed. And nothing in this world was as vicious or determined as a bonded orc protecting their mate.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“I’d finally started to believe that I would be enough.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Harming yourself is unacceptable!” “I’m not! And last I checked, watching a few videos doesn’t make you a fucking doctor, Frey. So get the fuck out of my bathroom.”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“She’d asked him to take her home and protect her—he’d done neither. Why would she want a male like him? A male whose own mother didn’t want him? Just like the boy he’d once been, hoping one day his mother would come back to take him with her; just like the youth he’d been desperate to please and provide for a clan that loathed him and used him…”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“You fucking asshole!” She screeched again, hot, frustrated tears leaking down her cheeks. How could he do this to me?”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“Carrot faster next time, then, he chortled, and she swore the unicorn winked at her.”
― S.E. Wendel, Sweetling

“You’re the only one who grabs me and flies to strange parks at night! What the actual fuck, Frey?”
― S.E. Wendel, Heartsong

“She should have known better. Nobody ever stays.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling

“Because she wanted him to stay with her. Because she wanted him. Fates, I love him.”
― S.E. Wendel, Halfling