Dark Light Quotes

“You saved him just to let him go.”

“Yes.”

“You knew all along what this meant, yet you did it anyway. You risked your life for him, knowing that it couldn’t work.”

“Yes.”

Niko laughs sardonically. I look over to find him leaning over, his head in his hands. “What kind of love is that? How could something that’s supposed to bring you joy and triumph be so painful?”

“It’s not love. It’s insanity.”

He lifts his face from his palms, and meets my eyes. I see that the pain of love he spoke about wasn’t for me or Dorian, it was for him. That was his hurt, his anguish. I’m not the only one who’s insane.

“Why do we let them do this to us?” he asks, his voice a broken whisper.

“Do what?”

“Leave us.” An iridescent speck rolls down his cheek, almost masked by the comfort of the shadows.

“Because we’re stupid. And because we’d rather have a moment of happiness than a lifetime of loneliness.”

Niko makes a noise in his throat, as if my words strangle him. I turn away, allowing him to suffer in private.

“We love the unlovable,” he murmurs. “We save the unsaveable.”

“It’s a sickness.”

“It’s masochism.”

I nod, but I don’t say a word. We’ve already said it all.”
― S.L. Jennings