Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)

by Autumn Woods

Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.

There are two girls living inside me: the one clinging onto her final shred of hope, and the one that wants to burn the world down.

Sad people are not always as deserving of our pity as they seem.

Hemlock House is for the strong and driven, those built with endurance who excel at physical challenges and tests of their sanity.

Snakeroot House has spat out a long lineage of the world’s finest surgeons. Many medical students

Nightshade. It boasts an endless list of famous alumni: CEOs, property tycoons, and investment bankers, alongside notorious serial killers, Mafia heirs,

“Disrupt or be disrupted,

Everyone has their string people—the people they are tied to, whether it be through blood or trauma or friendship.

He rolled me in his palm, flattening all my edges and peculiarities; my creativity, my empathy, my passion, until I was a perfect sphere of his creation.

my silence is not truly apathy. It’s molten rage churning beneath the surface,

He’s just a man. I’m just a woman. I’m allowed to think he’s pretty and hate him all at once.

To be loved is to be known,

There’s few feelings worse than someone making you feel stupid for your interests.

All my hopes in secrecy lie in ruins,

There are few things more painful in life than the things we cannot change.”

I had to step up and raise my sisters too young, that I didn’t have time to explore my emotions before I shoved them into a box.

He teaches them that they’re not worth coming home for.

I get too emotionally committed to things, too fast, and maybe that’s true.

Asking her to do something will make her not want to do it.