His hand closes around my throat. The movement is so rough and violent I’m almost relieved. Some part of me always hopes he’ll go through with it; that maybe this time he’ll actually let me die. But he never does. It never lasts. Torture is
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“You never know," said Nikolai. "I've been busy. I might have some surprises in store for the Darkling yet."
"Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."
"Well, now you've ruined the surprise.”
― Ruin and Rising
"Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."
"Well, now you've ruined the surprise.”
― Ruin and Rising
“Thanks for the rescue."
"Everyone needs a hobby."
"I thought yours was preening."
"Two hobbies.”
― Ruin and Rising
"Everyone needs a hobby."
"I thought yours was preening."
"Two hobbies.”
― Ruin and Rising
“You'll still make a great king."
"Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.”
― Ruin and Rising
"Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.”
― Ruin and Rising
“He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
“Hud would love his child the way his mother had loved him: actively, every day, and without ambiguity.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
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