Bone Island: Book of Danvers (Tales of Weeping Hollow, #2)

by Nicole Fiorina

She craved an escape, he craved to be found, two silent hearts thirsty, until they both drowned.

“It seems I’ve broken the curse trapped inside us and, in the process, let all our monsters out.”

“You have a fight within you, but a paper heart. This will be your downfall,”

Be stone, not paper. It’s the only way you will survive in a world full of people who will only disappoint you.”

The sea was a collector of things. It took things we cherished—most things we’d forgotten—and I still found myself drawn to her, unable to resist her call, needing to step into the graveyard of the lost, wild, and treasured.

There was pleasure in pain for someone like me—someone who was a pretty shell holding in an ocean of rage.

“A person only welcomes pain to either feel, distract, or suffocate something that hurts more.”

“Everyone dies, some more than once, but the true tragedy, I believe, is life being wasted on the afraid. People abuse time too often. Today, my darling, we are alive.”

“We can survive a lifetime without love, as long as it doesn’t touch us.” “Seems like an impossible task. What happens if it does?” A beautiful smile ripped across his face. “Then, my darling, we become mad fools.”

“Absolutely selfish. Half of that smile may be yours, but the other half is mine.”

Stone gave me permission to be wild in a world that had told me what I could and couldn’t be, what I should and shouldn’t become.

First, I was a monster. Then I was hers. Now I was nothing.

So, we clung to each other until we were forced to let go. The Heathen and his siren, with rebellion in our veins.

I didn’t realize how far I had fallen until I came up for air, and you weren’t there. But you made it so easy to love you, Stone Danvers.

My gaze fell upon Adora. And there went my heart. It beat so violently every time she looked at me. She was my only and all. She was the very last breath at the bottom of my lungs.

“Over a hundred years were thrown between us, and I still found you, and I’ll keep finding you. I will always find you.”

“Defy them, darling.”

“What I feel for you knows no time or place,” he whispered, his warm words ruffling my hair. “My love for you awakened without warning, slowly and in an instant, in one throbbing heartbeat ... and I’m in love with you always, my darling ... Do you hear me?”

“I. Love. You ... and these words are perishable, gone as soon as they leave my lips, but Adora, I hope you feel how deeply rooted you are in me. There is only one way you should be loved, and that is with my whole heart and last breath. So, you have me completely.”