A Touch of Poison (Shadows of the Tenebris Court, #2)

by Clare Sager

Turned out, it was a lot harder than I’d expected to hate someone who’d opened a part of me I hadn’t even known was there.

“If they know your heart, they will tear you apart to feast upon it.”

Did it serve you to keep quiet?” I had no answer. “Or did your silence just serve others and their comfort?”

They might say it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. But they were full of shit.

“I was terrified the whole time.” “We only get to be brave when we’re afraid.”

I wondered how that must feel. To love and be loved. To not be torn apart by your feelings but made whole by them.

“Your mind is who you are. If it collapses, you will lose yourself. Your fear and courage. Your humour and kindness. Your loyalty and determination. Everything you love, and everything you hate. They are ‘only’ thoughts, and yet…” And yet those things were me. Even the fear. Especially the fear.

You can’t choose what you numb. If you’re deadened, you lose the good and the bad.