“Ophelia is my deadly nightshade. She’s bad for me. I know what she’ll do to me, but she’s too beautiful. Too enticing. She’s too deep in my bloodstream already, painful and ecstatic all at once.”
― Nightshade
― Nightshade
“I can’t stay away from you, Ophelia. I’ve never pretended I can.”
― Nightshade
― Nightshade
“Then I’ll love you with the same intensity that you hate me. I’ll hold on to you just as hard as you push me away. I’ll fix you like you’re fixing me. I’ll always be here, Ophelia, I’ll sit at the bottom of valleys and stand on the top of mountains with you. We’re too good not to work.”
― Nightshade
― Nightshade
“I pull her frozen body onto my lap, wrapping her in blankets. “I have you,” I whisper against the dirt on her forehead. “You’re okay.” A quiet sob escapes her lips, her whisper barely audible. Her head leans into me the smallest amount. “I’m cold.” I tighten my arms around her limp frame and don’t intend to ever release them. I feel like I could vomit. “I know. I know, baby. I’m so sorry.”
― Nightshade
― Nightshade
“Get inside! You're bleeding!"
"I will not bleed any less indoors, you utter madwoman.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
"I will not bleed any less indoors, you utter madwoman.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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