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

by Clare Sager

That was all that existed. Light and darkness. Completion. Everything in the universe contained within those two ideas and the midpoint between them where a thousand shades danced together.

“Or did your silence just serve others and their comfort?”

“If we only grow vegetables, what will we look at while we dine? What will give us a reason to eat? Why bother living for tomorrow if not for things that feed our souls?”

It deafened me like every scream I’d ever held in. It rose and rose like a flood fed by every emotion I’d locked inside and poisoned myself with.