Dinoh (Akari)

“You’ve thought about killing me,” the prince said. “Many have. Many more dangerous than you. Yet here I stand, very much alive.”
― Ariana Nash, King of the Dark

“That was all I wanted. One star in my life. You feel like that star, like an impossible thing I don’t deserve.”
― Ariana Nash, Blood & Ice

“Because…” he said, “in the one place I expected to die, you gave me a reason to live.”
― Ariana Nash, Iron & Fire

“Eroan Ilanea, you’re my everything. I don’t need a dragon, I’m all-dragon with you. I’m not going anywhere, because I have everything I need right here. I love you now, I loved you yesterday, and I’ll love you a hundred years from now, until you’re as old as that ancient Order elf in Ashford and I’m so old I’ll frighten all the little elflings with inappropriate war stories.”
“You already do that,” Eroan said, but smiling again.
Lysander touched his nose to Eroan’s. “I’ll love you until all the other dragons are gone and the world is as it was, with billions of humans and hidden elves and houses and cities, and it’s just you and me, wondering when we got old. I’ll love you until your Ashford tree is as tall as the highest mountain. I’m never going to stop loving you because you’re my heart and my soul and my reason for living.” Eroan sighed against Lysander’s mouth, and it was all he could do not to ravish him right there. “Did you doubt it?” he asked.
“Not you,” Eroan said, a touch of heat in his face. “I doubted myself.”
“Well, don’t.”
― Ariana Nash, Reunion