Robin McKinley, Pegasus Quotes

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.