Laura

“You know I’m not the child you lost, right?” Kira finally said. Rather than take offense, Odelia smiled and dipped her chin. “I do, and so do the others. That’s not what this is about. Not entirely.” Kira folded her arms and leaned against the doorframe. “Then what?” Odelia was quiet for several seconds as she considered. Her expression was serene and kind when she said, “You’re not our child, but if you were, we’d hope someone would do the same for them.” Kira had nothing to say to that.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“He never stopped being the Beast Lord. He was the man who could dominate thousands of shapeshifters with a single look, and he was also the man who stayed up all night with a child who’d eaten some poisonous herbs in the forest and spent twenty-four hours throwing them up. One couldn’t be separated from another. They were all aspects of Curran, and I loved all of him.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Claims

“I’ll stand next to you and look menacing.” “No need to stand. You can sit and look menacing.” “Thank you, my queen.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Claims

“At some point in our lives together, keeping her lovely family from trying to murder her became a full-time job for me. They were powerful, homicidal psychopaths, and they didn’t half-ass it. When they came to kill her, they gave it their all. Her eyes sparked. “You wanted to kill me at some point.” “No. The most I promised to do was to throw you out of a window.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Claims