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“He’s happy, Yi-yi.��
I went very still. “He, who?��
“The one who danced you into love.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feversong

“You’re ashamed of me. Because I’m fat. That’s why you don’t want them to see me.��
She slit her eyes open just barely, lids heavy. “I’m not ashamed of you. And you’re not fat.��
“Look at my belly,�� he said tearfully, clutching it with both paws and jiggling.
She smiled. “I like your belly. I think it’s a perfectly wonderful belly, all soft and round.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“He turned his face up, eyes slanting half closed with bliss and rumbled in his broad chest. “I see you, Yi-yi.��
Yi-yi was what he’d named her that day long ago on Olean when she’d named him. He’d been saying the same words to her every time she awakened or fell asleep for four years, and wouldn’t rest until she said it back.
“I see you, too, Shazam.”
― Karen Marie Moning