Nevaeh

“His soft lips glide across my jaw. I’m dazzled by his touch, drugged by his promises, falling deeper and deeper into him. Before he reaches my mouth, I catch his hands and roll him off until he’s the one on his back, his wings no longer a hiding place but silky black pools along the ground.
I prop my top half over his so I’m in control. “I can’t think,” I whisper. “You’re making me crazy.”
“Insanity is the most pristine clarity.” He winds a leg around my hips and topples me onto him. “Let the lunacy in. Let it be your guide.” One corner of his mouth lifts to a boyish grin.”
― A.G. Howard, Ensnared

“Every day for the last three years, she had thought she deserved to die. She still didn’t want to. She wanted to live with every filthy desperate scrap of her heart”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Whatever creature you turn into, whatever form you take, I won't let go of you.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“A bloody gloaming then, and bloodier still as twilight fades to dawn.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night