“I love to hear you talk, Sage Hanson...”

“Wondering how well our demons could play together could be lethal.”

“It will not be used to save a Wizard who knows no better than the use of his hands in bruising women.”

“Be stupid, do it again, and you’ll have another infant in the cemetery to mourn.”

“Perhaps you’ve brought back a touch of the dead with you, the soul of a cock from the interim, and now you know more about necromancy than I do?

“Couch, no springs, cake…I could even hold you if you wanted, as a friend, of course.”

“Everyone’s blood was tested, and the last time this happened, it was because a match was needed to validate the safety of your pregnancy.”

“Dangerous territory to stand between brothers crowned in death, and hope you still shine bright in the end.”

“I didn’t touch you, I didn’t look, and we never had sex.”

“You have a fervency for turning people away when they offer genuine help, or…I don’t know, false security?”

“Papa says no treats afore dinner.”

“Your legs are skinny, and your hump game looks like you fuck dudes for spare coin and pocket lint.”

“Whatever it is that you hold ransom in the depths of your mind, I hope it worthy of your ignorance.”

“Back in the day, he carried you on his shoulders so you could pick peaches from the trees, and your smile wasn’t the same as his. He saw something more, and you saw something less.”

“Kneazles can sense peculiarity, suspicious people, and right now, you smell really fucking suspicious.”

“But I was the last to know, standing like a fool among Wildlings and a Wizard that knew exactly who he was.”

“He lives in the London Borough of Islington, about a twenty-minute walk from King’s Cross Station.”

“Spit in my mouth, let me taste you…”

“He speaks, his mouth hovering over mine, and my tongue waters despite the desolation surrounding us with more than just the taste of spoiled peach, him…I want him, and it seems I’ve bypassed the corruption around us, fully immersed in sugar cookies and sin.”

“Nothing that you are or could ever become is ever going to change the way I see you.”