Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. Furthermore, it didn't mean it wasn't scary, or that I wasn't still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I'd be alright. We'd get rained on together. Knowing Braden he'd have a big ass umbrella to shelter us from the worst of it. That there was an uncertain future I could handle.

— Samantha Young

Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.

— Samantha Young

That's it... I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

— Samantha Young

That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of those rooms for inappropriate behavior. And they say a library is a boring place to work.

— Samantha Young

There were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thoughts climbing over her like creeping ivy, scratching and biting into her skin and entangling her in their morbid clutch. Because... wasn't OT true now that not only was she not human, but she was kind of a 'thing' rather than Jinn? The Seal was an object with no emotion or thought or feeling. It has one purpose. To command the Jinn. What did that really make her then?

— Samantha Young

The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

— Samantha Young

Tomorrow you'll receive your employment contracts. Once you sign those I'm your boss." When I didn't answer he said, "That means you act the way I want you to act. That means you shelve your attitude and the twenty questions."" Should I shelve those next to 'personality'?

— Samantha Young

Ungentle manliness?” he teased. “I dare you to say that five times fast.

— Samantha Young

What's the use of the wind if it won't take you away on it?

— Samantha Young

When you asked me to stay away from you in your note, it finally hit me. You meant it. You weren’t going to try anymore. I’d run out of chances, and I realized that the night before would be the last time I ever saw you. And I couldn’t … The whole time on that plane I … I kept thinking to myself if I could just get to you, I would tell you I loved you, and I’d get to keep you. I’m that selfish.

— Samantha Young