River

“Do not let your empathy stop at the borders of your own community.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

“We were supposed to stand alone at the top, but we will always be there together. We will keep climbing until no one else can reach us, but it will always be together.”
― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry

“He wanted to tell Shane that the closest he felt to home was when he was with him. It didn’t matter if it was in a hotel room, or Ilya’s apartment, or at that weird hideout building Shane bought in Montreal, or here at Shane’s cottage; he was himself when he was with Shane. He’d left Russia, he was uneasy in America, and he’d spent his entire adult life drifting between continents and between lovers.”
― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry

“I am not alone,” Ilya said. “You are here now”
― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry