Allison Carr Waechter > Quotes

“She did not shrink back. She did not turn away. There in the dark, she too was made whole, forged anew. The candles flared. The shadows drank her in and she swallowed them down. Harlow Krane was more herself than she had ever been, and now she was becoming something more than she had ever been before.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“Behind her Kate murmured, “And only a witch can become a succubus. Fuck, why didn’t I see this coming?” Harlow looked back, confused. “Why would you?” Something flickered across Kate’s face in the moonlight that Harlow couldn’t identify,”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“His words started out as a soft rumble. “I’m glad we had these dances drilled into us as littlings.” His hold on her tightened, as his fingers swept up her spine and into her hair, the rumble melting into a growl. “I don’t have an ounce of blood left to operate my brain.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“In that moment, as she held her sister, she understood it was true. She was better now, and it wasn’t because of Finn, or her magic manifesting, or anything else. It was because of the work she’d done on herself. The time she’d taken for herself. The months alone in her empty apartment working through things, letting herself be lonely, staying with herself, with her pain, instead of running from it. She wasn’t perfectly healed, and maybe she never would be, but she was better. Stronger.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“A bridge between the aether and Okairos,” she murmured from behind her hand.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“Love is an infinite well.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“Finn McKay. Memories of stormy eyes and dark, unruly hair”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“She wished she hadn’t frittered the day away reading a new romance novel, but it was what it was.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“All Harlow ever did was try. She tried and failed. Over and over… until things worked. Until they worked. Yes, that was it. Harlow wasn’t the kind of person who got things right on the first try, and she often struggled, but she stuck with things—and when she did, she excelled.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Awaken the Fifth Order

“Harlow can use pure magic? She doesn’t have to weave threads or use spells?”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“She recognized every stone, every window. “Is this my dream house? The one you drew for me?”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“They complemented one another well, the perfect mix of dark night and golden dawn.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“Surely she was misunderstanding him. “You still want that? You still want… me?” His slate eyes widened. “Did you think getting mad at me would make me stop wanting you?” Her eyes watered, but she couldn’t answer. “Harls,” he said, his deep voice gentle as he cupped her chin in his hands, one of his thumbs stroking her bottom lip so tenderly she thought she might sob. “You are allowed to get angry. I hope we don’t spend all our time yelling and snapping at each other, but if it happens, it happens. We’ll make up and move on.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn

“Her mothers might not understand the danger someone like Finn posed to her sisters, but she did, all too well. Harlow wasn’t going to let any of them be hurt by a self-centered, arrogant prick like him, and if she had to sabotage the entire season to keep him away from her sisters, she would.”
― Allison Carr Waechter, Dark Night Golden Dawn