Heartwarming / October Daye

• The end of An Artificial Night, the Luidaeg to Toby: "Come here. I need to hold someone, and you need to be held. Just for a little while, and then we can go back to being what we are."
• Also in An Artificial Night: Toby comes back from a long absence and Spike the rose goblin looks up, sees her, jumps into her arms, and rams its head into her chin like a cat.
• In the 3rd book, when Toby's friends rescue her from Blind Michael's ride. Also You Are Not Alone.
• In Late Eclipses, when Toby rescues Sylvester from Oleander and Rayseline, he hugs her and says this: "Stop dying on me." She replies, "I don't do it on purpose."
• In One Salt Sea, the Luidaeg comforting Toby after Connor's death.
• In Ashes of Honor, when they all finally catch up to Chelsea and are set to rescue her, she immediately calls out "Daddy!" when she sees Etienne, despite just having found out he's her father a little while ago.
  • And then at the very end, Bridget moves under the hill so they can be together as a family.
• When Sorrows Comes has Quentin making a deal to change his identity down to the smell of his magic in order to attend Toby's wedding because after all the insanity he's seen he knows someone's gonna try to kill her. Then he makes a confession that brings them both to hugs and tears:
  "And it seemed like a good idea because . . .” He [Quentin] hesitated, swal­lowing hard. “Because you’re my mom, Toby. I have a mother, I love her, but she stopped being there for me seven years ago, and it’s been you almost the whole time since then. You’re my knight and my responsible adult and my mom. I know someone’s going to try to kill you at your own wedding! I’ve met you, I know how your life works, and you’re my mom. I have to be there. I’m your squire. I’d be failing you completely if I wasn’t there.”
  • Its implied that after putting off the wedding repeatedly, the Luidaeg made the deal specifically that Quentin had to attend the wedding (with of them alive) in order to get the counter-dought was so that October and Tybalt would finally tie the knot.
• "With Much Reveling":
  • Julie formally admits that Ross's death back in Rosemary and Rue wasn't Toby's fault, and promises to be there for any children that she has with Tybalt.
  • Gillian tells Toby that, while it'll take time to get used to the way things are now, she's willing to get to know her better.