More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Change can be a cruel master. It pulls us in unexpected directions, leaving us feeling lost and uncertain.
“Please continue to fight, Little Nightmare. I love a good challenge.”
“Come out, come out wherever you are, Nightmare.”
“You really are a brutal little thing, Nightmare, but next time you hold back, I will find a way to coax that lethal demon from you and force her to come play with me.”
“Even the rare smile is enough to weaken a man.”
“I am not enough. You are the stars and the storm, Wife. Somehow, you’re both peace and destruction. Nightmare and a daydream. You’re hell and home. Fear and solace. Slumber and panic. Kindness and rage. Light is easy to love, but I’ve seen your darkness, and I want that, too. I crave it. I want to fucking drown it in. But how does any man live up to that? Deserve that?”
“You forget, Nightmare, you belong to me.”
“Threatening the loss of a body part is a term of endearment.”
“Does it feel good? To show them you’re my weakness, Wife?”
“Give me everything. I want your sadness. Your guilt. I want your happiness, too. And every moment that makes those lips curl into a smile.”
There will never be a part of me that doesn’t crave you. Even in madness, you’re my only desire. In rage and fury. In weakness and wonder. You may question whether I am sane, but I am wholly yours. For a thousand lifetimes. Eternity is not going to be long enough.”
Because should any harm come to you, Deyanira, I will become the thing of nightmares. I will bring this world to wreckage. It’s the only thing I can give you. My only promise.”
The king’s command was cut off by shouting up the stairs. Starting with a few voices, in just minutes, the entire castle began to quake, followed by the familiar, bellowing tone of my furious husband. He’d come for me.
Because not only had he come, he’d shattered the world to get to me.
He’d promised to break the world to get to me, and he’d kept it.
“If there’s a single part of your heart that convinces you that I’d sit back and let you suffer for the rest of your life just to spare me the passing of mine, you don’t know the depth of my love for you.”
