“I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.”

“A man's heart does not love like a woman's, Lorelei. Logren would lay down and die if he thought his death would save your life because you are his sister, but his tongue is not so easily guided by his brother's heart.”

“They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.”

“Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.”

“I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.”

“Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.”