Noelle

“Shadows replaced fog. They were in the catacombs underneath the High Temple. Ruya pushed the lid from an ossuary in front of them and placed the black tome within. Surprise and fear replaced Ruya’s homesickness. She’d underestimated Merikh.
A splitting headache hit him. The world went black. He could feel Ruya’s panic. And then the warmth of her hand on his wrist grew cold.

He could smell blood.”
― L.J. Stanton, The Dying Sun

“I’ve always known exactly who she is. Light and life. Love and warmth. A gleaming vibrancy that I never deserved but never would have given up. She is mine and I am hers, for all of eternity. In every life. But in this one, she has been taken from me. And it’s my fault.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“The reality that I exist in a world where she does not.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Maybe sometimes, time doesn’t help. It just…stretches. Widens the gap between the loss and the after.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch