I’m sorry, ” I whispered. “I never wanted this for you. This life…I knew it was going to kill me in the end. I wish you didn’t have to be here when it finally caught up.

Ember was mine. The other half of me. And I would fight Talon, St George, and the entire d world to keep her safe.

Helpless, I clenched my fists against my back, well aware that every mile, every minute that ticked by, took me ever farther from getting to them in time and closer to losing the red dragon forever.

At least I know the truth, ” I gritted back. “I’m not the one who’s being lied to.” His brow furrowed, and I spat the truth at him.

So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.

Every day were reborn.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.

I won't stop loving you because I can't stop loving you.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!