The Stars Are Dying (Nytefall Trilogy #1)

by Chloe C. Peñaranda

No—love was too mundane a word for the split in his soul she cleaved in her wake.

“Rest now. When you wake, the world will still be cruel and your heart will still be bleeding, but you are breathing, Astraea. And every breath is a reminder that you live for something.”

“I’ve known many centuries of torture,” he said, so quiet it touched me gently. “And yet the greatest agony is you.”

wish you were real so I could slap you.” “I shouldn’t find your violence so attractive.”