Of Deathless Shadows (Alkrose Academy, #1)

by K.M. Moronova

For those who have been burned by pain. It ruined us… but we rose from the ashes.

Love is an expensive piece of bullshit, and its price is your fucking soul.

I always loved that about her—she’s constantly chasing things in her head and she lives in a sea of fairytales, as if that’s where she’ll find all life's answers.

I know I’m good at putting on the mask, but it doesn’t mean I don’t feel everything to the marrow of my bones.

That’s rule fucking one, mask your emotions, because I shouldn’t have them.

“It’s not that I don’t believe in it. I just don’t think it’s worth the price,”

Love never truly dies—it transforms into a longing that pulls at your soul, guiding your heart through the cruel waves of the world. I just hope the dull pain takes me somewhere lovely in the end.

We can’t fight what we are—what we become when left in the dark.

I turn it all off. I let it fucking go.

Broken people gravitate toward one another. It’s why we’re mates, why our Shadows will dance for eternity around one another. We were torn from ribbons of the same universe. Our dark souls can never be separated.

I’m used to being the one that will stick up for anyone but never receives the same justice.

Yes—pain changes you.