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“A country fighting itself to survive is no country,” he continued. “A marriage struggling similarly is no marriage. But we’re on the same side, Amelia, not as chess pieces in the great endless wars that we have too long let define us, but as people. Today isn’t the end of our story. It’s the beginning. I love you, and the only thing that should and can and will be over today is misunderstanding — in our hearts and, in time, throughout our country.”
― Erin McRae, A Queen from the North

“All his earlier restraint was gone. Amelia felt powerful, like a witch having summoned the wind, to be the cause of it. There was a sheen of sweat across his forehead, and his hair was a wild wreck from where she had run her hands through it. She was counting the flecks of gold and green in his eyes, when he closed them and”
― Erin McRae, A Queen from the North