Sam

“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose.”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

“That girl was gone; wolfgirl had returned. Wolfgirl, who was leaf dance and moon claw and tooth gleam. When Jupiter sizzled the air with lightning bolts, she caught them on the fly.
"Nice throw, Jupiter!"
"Nice catch, wolfgirl!"
Her mouth was a cavern of stars.”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

“The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret.”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

“...And then it occurred to him to wonder whether you actually knew what a seduction involves. The details, I mean.
I spread my wicked left hand over my face, but surely slices of crimson tide showed between my fingers. "You're right," I said.
"That you're sorry?"
"That I'm sorry."
"What shall I tell your father?" said Eldric.
"Don't tell him anything!"
"You teased it out of me," said Eldric."You ought to answer. It has your fatehr worried, actually."
"Tell him I read alot." I could almost hear the curling lion's smile in Eldric's voice.”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime