Curious reader

“I’m not sure what I enjoy more. Seeing the way you grip a sword . . . or the way your dress grips you.”
― Alex Aster, Lightlark

“That was the moment I knew I loved you, he had said. When that arrow went through your heart, and it might as well have gone through mine.”
― Alex Aster, Lightlark

“I could open a black hole that would swallow the beach. I could turn the sea dark as ink and kill everything inside of it. I could demolish the castle, brick by brick, from where we stand. I could take you back to Nightshade lands with me right now.” His voice was deep as dreams, dark as nightmares. “I could do all of those things.” His lips pressed against the top of her ear, for just a moment. “And I might—if I didn’t think you would hate me for it.”
― Alex Aster, Lightlark

“A few conversations with you, and I was ready to make the most disadvantageous trade-all of me in exchange for any part of you'd be willing to spare.”
― Alex Aster, Lightlark