I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.

You are saddened by love's importance in the emir's life?"
He paused. "I am frustrated by its importance in all our lives.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.