Elenariel

“[T]he sea itself was still and very calm, while the setting sun dappled the water with copper and crimson.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“Did you blow up a kraken?"
"Maybe."
He laughed into the phone.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Tides

“You didn't tell me you were the Consort," I growled. "I haven't been the Consort for 9 years."
"I didn't think you were a shapeshifter, but now I see it, " Thomas said. "You sound like one."
Behind me Andre made a strangled noise that sounded a lot like an aborted snicker.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Tides

“There is such a thing as evil in this world,” Elias told her quietly. “It does not help to look away from it. It does not even help, necessarily, to look at it.” His fingers brushed through her hair, and she shivered. “But sometimes, when you cannot force the world to come to its senses, you must settle only for wiping away some of the small evils in front of you.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul