Status Updates From Shadows and Roses (The Dark...

Holding his eyes, she stood and rounded the table in a few short steps. Emerald deepened to dark forest green and his heart beat faster. No, he wouldn't have done the same. He would've taken her army and razed every inch of land between them. The world would already be on fire.

“If Castien dies, I will burn this world and every last one of the snakes. Even if everything else burns too."

“Hate is a part of being human. You will hate and you will be angry and you must not suppress those feelings. Don’t poison yourself with your own thorn. Neither should you allow thorns to be all that you are.”

No matter that she felt more alive with him than ever in her life, that she couldn't imagine feeling so deeply for anyone else. She wanted to beg him not to tear her heart from her chest and take it with him.

“I terrify you?"
His lips curved. "Like a moonless night. Too dark to see where danger might come from."

“I can sense when you walk into a room and I want to smile when I see you. Sometimes I do anyways."