Lady of Shadows: (Lady of Darkness Book 2)

“The world will tell you that the night houses the wicked and cruel, but what they do not know…” And the woman paused as a flame of pure white glittered in her palm, cold as the space between the stars. “Is that the darkness is where the most beautiful things grow.”

The freedom lies in letting others in and letting them share the burden.

“You have only failed when you give up, Talwyn. Fear is natural, but you do not yield to it,”

we make bad calls, but we can’t change them. You deal with it. You learn from it. You become humbled by it. But you do not let it define you. You let it shape you.

“Hope is for the dreamers, Princess.” He leaned in and kissed her softly.

“Darkness is for the finding the stars, Prince,”

“Scarlett, I love you like the stars love the night. All the way through the darkness,” Sorin said gently. “You are not alone, and never will be again. You get all of me, and I get all of you. We do not shut each other out. We do not get to tell each other to leave. There will forever be a you and me.”

“It means,” Hazel said, her voice softer than it had been all day, “that you know my son and that it is time for him to return.”

“You cannot run from grief, just as you cannot run from what is your very being.”

along with another scent he couldn’t figure out. It smelled of musty dirt and earth.

“Some days are hard. Sometimes simply making it through the hard days is enough,”