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Love is brighter than gold, but it is heavier

"How easy it is to exist so small" 

"You are on a high horse mister. And someday someone will knock you off it straight into your grave." 

"Its okay to cry around Mags" 

"Tough and smart, her hair in two braids then, reminding me for all the world of Louella McCoy, my sweetheart of old. And after she volunteered for the games, that nickname couldn't help but slip out. I didnt want to let them in, her and Peeta, but the walls of a person's heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love." 

A light rain, mixed with sleet, is falling beyond the window, but I have not drawn the curtains, for my view of the lantern-lit campus is charming in the winter night’s gloom.

He held me until I was still, gently combing through my hair, and I leaned my forehead against the curve of his neck. I could smell the wildflowers in his hair.

“You do not wish to know how I came by this information?”
“Yes, but only because you clearly wish to tell me,” he said, smiling.

"Anyway, Em, I am sure you are happily ensconced in your native habitat, that dreary monument to mortal rumination that is the library, no doubt thinking of me hardly at all."

"And so, Em, when I say that I am wretchedly ill at ease without your company, that I feel as if I am missing a limb, that I cannot be content even amidst the wonder of my realm, you will understand the depth of my feelings."

"Mother says I should not wish for things that may never come to pass, but be content with what I have today. She can spear a seal with one thumb, which would be useful, wouldn’t it?”

“She was a great beauty, with a singing voice that could charm the aurora. When an illness took her, it drove him mad, and he swore he would never marry another but her own flesh and blood.”
“Ah,” the king said. “She had no other siblings?”
I gritted my teeth “No”.

" I don't like to hold his gaze for long; not because I find it intimidating, but because a part of me worries that if I do, I will never wish to look away" 

"Em, I must confess- I am in awe of you. I believe I am also a little frightened" 

"Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping"

"if you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety"

"Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?"

"The aurora danced above us both nights, green and blue and white undulating together, a cold ocean up there in the sky, and even that he barely glanced at."

"You are not so terrible, Em. You merely need friends who are dragons like you."

"He’s prettier when he’s asleep, eh? You don’t notice that big mouth of his."

"I half listened in astonishment. I say half, because I was mostly just watching you, observing the way your mind clicks and whirrs like some fantastical clock"

"I have grown rather used to pining, so it won’t put me out to keep at it, I suppose.”

""I will depart these shores before the winter is out,” I said. “Wouldn’t it be best for you to find a fjolskylda among the Ljoslanders?”

“It doesn’t matter where you are,” he said simply."