What hurt has been done to you, sweet girl? We shall erase it – it shall be but a memory forgotten," she promised. This, she knew how to do.

I doubt you would understand what it is like, to watch yourself die more and more each day, while birthing a whole new woman at the same time.

One ought never laugh at their Queen, especially when that woman is their wife.

There was a dazzling intellect beneath the girl's sadness, she was sure - and it bothered Mallory to no end that it might go wasted on the world if Dawn could not be coaxed out of her melancholy.