"I did it to get my boy. That's what you think, isn't it? The Black Wolf of Lochalpin. Big man that he is. Can't let himself be seen to be taken in by a woman. So he thinks he can't possibly be in her blood. In her heart. That heaven forbid, she might want him, in her bed, in her life, because she does. Every bit of him. And I know he wants her. So I don't care I'm going where angels fear to tread. I'm done thinking empires mustn't be destroyed by this feeling. God Almighty, I don't even mind the fact my eyes are smarting and I'm making the most awful damned fool of myself here. For God's sake will you stop fiddling with Satan's girth?"
"Just you keep telling yourself these things, Princess. Over and over. Because even if these good people there weren't your destiny—which they are—"
"My destiny? I wasn't their destiny all the years I rotted in that cell."