Enshadowed Quotes

“I'll keep it," she said. "Then, when you get back, after you and the dark one are done making out and planning a future filled with blond-haired, green-eyed, pigment-challeneged rug rats, I'll bring it over and you can add it to your scrapbook, right before you start cooking me dinner. I like vegetarian lasagna with cottage cheese instead of ricotta."

"Gwen?"

"And don't forget the mushrooms. Garlic bread, too, please. That is, as long as your vampire lover doesn't object."

"I want to say thank you," Isobel said. "For... everything."

"No," Gwen said. "Thank you for the delicious dinner. I can almost taste the baklava you and Darth Vader will be making for dessert. Something tells me you're gonna have to look that one up, though.”
― Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed

“She is the harbinger of nightmares as well as death, destruction, and insanity. Said to reign in an alternate dimension, a bleak and desertlike twilight version of reality, Lilith has long been hailed as the queen of mental darkness.”
― Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed

“You can’t understand us. We don’t even understand ourselves.”
― Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed

“Much like books, she could tell how voiceless things had provided a brand of companionship more compatible to his nature than human friendship had ever been. These things, locked in their inanimate ways, fed him ideas, she thought. They whispered their tales to him through unmoving lips and he listened, opening himself to their world so much more than any normal passerby. That much was evident in the way he’d taken the photos, as if he’d caught each soulless thing in a candid moment of secret animation. Like they’d sensed him coming and so turned themselves his way because they knew that he held the power to translate their silence into words.”
― Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed

“He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.”
― John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter