Perfect beauty could be so ugly.

Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were. To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.Because in that journey was where...

I walked forward simply because there was no going back.

I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.

He can’t give you a future.””I know. Because I make my own future.

The flower drifted, light and open, gliding a path through still water like the faint stirrings of a dream.

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

To be ready does not mean it will be easy. It doesn’t mean it will be smooth. It means that even when it’s difficult, you have what it takes to survive.

What drove me now was a force beyond elementals, beyond time.It was the force of a thousand years of history, the collected voices of generations of ondines, the desires of those who’d lived and died....

These hands don’t have magic.” Daniel looked down at his palms. “But they can still do good, Kendra. Magic is extraordinary, a gift I will always marvel over. But it doesn’t determine a person’s worth,...

I’d spent my life searching for something I couldn’t name.And as I drowned in the torrential flow of conflicting desires, caught in the relentless roar of water, earth, blood, and war, I reached out –...

Losing beauty was easy.Overlooking it, forgetting it, hardening yourself so much you could no longer be surprised or overwhelmed by it.I pulled back, taking in the strong line of his jaw, the sharp edge of...