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“Jealousy is a callow schoolboy’s emotion that ends in hard feelings and bloody noses. What I feel for you, Miss Vespertine, would destroy lives.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“That is the tragedy of women, isn’t it? We deny ourselves beauty for the sake of misleading men.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“What separates monsters from good men is only a matter of perspective.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“Says who? I happen to get very attached to my fictional boyfriends.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“Calling her beautiful was like calling the sun lukewarm. She’d blazed like the hottest part of a flame in that dress. And fuck me, I’d felt the heat.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“She was the warmth of the sun on a cold and rotting corpse. The first breath after a lifetime of death.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“He was moody, like rainy days and bitter coffee. Sensual whispers in dark corners and the slow burn of fine whiskey.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“For those who feel lost in a dark and pathless wood. Believe in the magic beyond the trees.”
― Anathema
― Anathema
“I find it interesting that any time a girl is unusual, or dare I say, unique, she’s deemed evil, or cursed.”
― Anathema
― Anathema
“You’re my curse. Staying away from you, is like trying to hold my breath when the tide is rising … I want to drown in you.”
― Master of Salt & Bones
― Master of Salt & Bones
“Don’t hide from me, Lilia. You are no less beautiful than that day you walked into my classroom and stole my fucking breath.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“That I would kill for you without a beat of hesitation, or remorse. And yet, at the same time, I could be reduced to nothing more than a pile of ash without you.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“Together, we are madness. And there is music in madness, and madness in love.”
― Master of Salt & Bones
― Master of Salt & Bones
“Strong women will always bear the dangerous burden of a weaker man’s pride.”
― Nightshade
― Nightshade
“And so the moth befriended the flame.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“I feel it, too,” he said, as if reading my mind. “It’s inside of me. Burning like a fever I can’t shake. It’s a spiteful, prideful anger that refuses to admit the truth.” “What truth?” I asked, my voice shaky. Nervous. “That I would kill for you without a beat of hesitation, or remorse. And yet, at the same time, I could be reduced to nothing more than a pile of ash without you. I’m weak for you, Lilia.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“I’m not going anywhere. You and I? This? There’s no escaping it. Doesn’t matter how fast you run, or how far you get, I will always be inside you just like this. In your bones and in your blood and in your head. It doesn’t matter what you tell the universe–what secrets you spill. Nothing can change what we are, what we’ve become.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“Allow me to caution you, Miss Vespertine. You are a confused moth dancing about a wild flame. Blind to the incomprehensible danger of your curiosities.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“I want you. I want you so desperately that I’d kill anything with a pulse just to have you for one night. This insatiable craving I feel …” A muscle in his jaw twitched with the tension in his words and he squeezed my hand. “I can’t fucking breathe. I ache for you, Maevyth. Believe me when I say this.” But he didn’t bother to say why he hesitated.”
― Anathema
― Anathema
“Emotions I was forced to keep hidden for fear of looking possessed by evil, as girls were often perceived when they felt too much.”
― Anathema
― Anathema
“Hands gripped my face as he held me imprisoned in that breathless moment, then pressed his forehead to mine. “I’ll never know what in seven hells inspired the universe to send you to me, Maevyth.” “Some might call it a punishment,” I said, smiling. “If this is punishment, then I welcome an eternity of suffering.” The kiss that followed was gentle and teasing in the way he merely brushed his lips across mine. “You consume me entirely, little moon witch.”
― Anathema
― Anathema
“I don’t give a damn about every other girl. There’s only one who crosses my mind a fuck-ton more than she should. So, I’m going to finish you, Lilia. I’m going to give you the release you’ve been craving, and I won’t touch you again. But this pussy belongs to me. You let any other undeserving prick near it, and I will cut out his tongue and send it to you in a specimen jar.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“the heart is a dangerous organ that isn’t meant to be free. Why else would God have built a cage for it?”
― Master of Salt & Bones
― Master of Salt & Bones
“You are mine, moon witch. For all eternity and whatever lies beyond it. No soul has ever been more intricately woven into mine than yours.”
― Anathema
― Anathema
“A villain is quite capable of love. It’s only the matter of what he’s willing to sacrifice for that love which separates him from a good man.”
― Nightshade
― Nightshade
“Your professor is about to eat your pussy, Lilia.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“The stars in the sky are the souls of the people we love. They shine so bright, not even the night can hide them. And when we’re lost, they guide us.”
― Ricochet
― Ricochet






