For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever.“Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable.“Really what?” I asked.“Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me.“Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

— Patricia Briggs

From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!

— Dr. J. Otis Yoder

God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured.

— Bamigboye Olurotimi

Heart turned to me, his face thought­ful. “Yes­ter­day morn­ing. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn’t been home for two days be­fore that.” He smiled at me. “You were sup­posed to be the Al­pha’s eye can­dy.” Adam laughed.“What?” I asked him. “You don’t think I’d be good eye can­dy?” I looked down at my over­alls and grease-stained hands. I’d torn an­oth­er nail to the quick.“Hon­ey is eye can­dy,” said Ben apolo­get­ical­ly. “You’re. . . Just you.”“Mine,” said Adam, edg­ing be­tween Heart and me. “Mine is what she is.

— Patricia Briggs

He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.

— Karen Marie Moning

Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me."" Woof," I said.

— Jennifer Echols

He sighed, then said, "So basically, you're stalking her."" I am NOT stalking her." I insisted." That's where you come in. If I followed her by myself, someone who did not understand the situation and did not realize that I am so responsible-"McGillicuddy snorted."- might mistake what I am doing for stalking. However, her big brother is with me. Therefore, we are protecting her.

— Jennifer Echols

How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?

— Karen Marie Moning

I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

— Ann M. Martin