“If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.” IfsWantStillsWould BeTogetherForgetPleasureMinesSummerStrongerCourtMortalsQueensHeatDistractionRejoiceForget Everything Author:Melissa Marr
“It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.” WayProtectCourtMortals Author:Melissa Marr
“In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.” FirstsEndsCreaturesWeightBreathsCourtAddMortalsFiniteHeartbeatFaerieBlinkInsatiableExpired Author:Melissa Marr
“That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.” WantNeedsDreamLostKingsLet MeCourtStop Dreaming Author:Melissa Marr
“Donia asked incredulously. “What were you doing?” “The day had just begun, and we were dancing,” Aislinn said. “Dancing?” Donia looked at the Summer Queen with the same disdain Keenan had once seen on her face when she looked at the Summer Girls. “Of course you were. Bananach is attacking faeries, stealing from our courts. Irial is injured. Faerie is closed. Yes, dancing is precisely what will help.” SaidHelpingFacesGirlCoursesSummerCourtDancingStealingQueensAttackingInjuredFaerieDisdain Author:Melissa Marr
“You are my queen. I’ve spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend’s son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I’d die before I’d allow harm to you.” He bowed his head.” DiesGirlCenturySonCourtSeekingHarmNineMortalsQueensMy Best Friend Author:Melissa Marr
“When I told you I wanted to try, I spoke the truth. When I turned away, it was for my former court, and when I tried to make another faery love me, it was for that court. I’ve lived for my whole life trying to bring the Summer Court back to the strength it once was. In all of those years, in centuries , I’ve only wished myself free of duty because of one reason. You.” TryingYearsReasonWholeWantedCenturyDutySummerCourtWhole LifeFormerSpokes Author:Melissa Marr
“For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.” YearsKingsCourtMortalsQueensAbandonProtected Author:Melissa Marr
“If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.” IfsWaySufferingLeftArmsCourtMortalsPermission Author:Melissa Marr
“By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.” WorldDarkEmotionWorstActivityStandardsUnderstoodCourtMortalsEngagedFedsTrustedFaerie Book:Stopping Time and Old Habits Source: Stopping Time and Old Habits
