“If they want to discuss your past, they can do it somewhere I cannot hear them.”

“You make me laugh when I’m furious, sleep when I’m exhausted, and remember that ruling Summer is not the same thing as being alive in it.”

“I have known you long enough to recognize that expression. Whatever you are about to suggest, the answer is probably no.”

“Fourteen years married, and apparently I am only now learning how inconvenient a husband can become.

“Humans seem very concerned with whether love is proper. Dragons are more concerned with whether it is true.”

“I chose somewhere warm because you once said you hated cold birthdays.”

“My father told me once that love should make a man ridiculous. I thought he was being dramatic. Irritatingly, he was right.”

“You were building a family. He got scared. That was never your shame to carry. This house feels less like mine and more like ours.”

“I avoided saying their names because I thought it would break you. The truth is, I was afraid it would break me.”

“I’m not taking care of you because I think you’re helpless. I’m doing it because today is hard, and I have two hands.”

“I have heard every hymn ever written in my name, and none of them have ever sounded half as beautiful as you laughing.”

You wear my jersey, steal my clothes, eat my food, and sleep in my bed. At some point, baby, this starts looking suspicious

“The bond made you the center of my instincts. You became the center of my life all by yourself."

“I don’t want you because you’re an Omega. I want you because you’re you. The rest is just details I happen to enjoy.”

“Ask me nicely. You’d be amazed how generous I become when you remember I’m desperately in love with you.”

“You being neurodivergent was never the problem. The problem was that everyone around you realized they could weaponize it.”

“The headband was never just decoration. I was courting you, you beautiful, oblivious man.”

<...

“It doesn’t matter what others believed. I believed you were alive — and that belief kept me steady.”

“I married the most beautiful man in Greece. Somehow, that is still one of the least interesting things about you.”

“Come sit on my lap and help me pretend I’m listening to the florist.”

“I love our children. I simply do not understand why loving them requires surrendering my husband."

The greatest thing I have done as Fire Lord was not ending a rebellion or signing a treaty. It was making sure my child never feared coming home...

“Come here, my prince. The sea has endured enough distance between us.”

“You’re real pretty for somebody determined to test my self-control in my grandmother’s house.”

“Maybe I loved you before. That doesn’t mean I get to skip falling in love with you again.”

...

"You were always going to belong beside someone powerful. It was never going to be him."

“Little prince, I would give you almost anything. The few things I refuse are the ones that would hurt you.”

“I have had every house in Valyria offer me blood, gold, dragons, and obedience. None of them offered me peace.”

“You leaving broke something in me. Finding out why... didn’t fix it. It just gave the wound a name.”

“You wrote to me like I was just Elijah. Not Williams. Not the point guard. Not the rich boy. Just me.”

“Must there be an occasion for me to adore my husband?”

“You owe me nothing. Not forgiveness. Not trust. Not even the courtesy of looking at me.”