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“The Darkling appeared to me almost every day, usually in his chambers or the aisles of the library, sometimes in the war room during council meetings or as I walked back from the Grand Palace at dusk.
“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.
Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.
“Then I’d be alone, too,” he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“In the darkness, in her arms, I listen to her heartbeat. And I lose sight of mine.”
― T.L. Swan, The Casanova

“how can we appreciate the sun every morning if we don’t live through the dark?”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“I grieve nothing, I take everything" - Aaron Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me