Kindle Notes & Highlights
Grief is a language I’ve become fluent in, but acceptance is a dialect I cannot speak.
I am a collector of sounds, a connoisseur of emotions I can no longer feel myself.
This is what I am. A killer of hope. A thing of bone and nightmare.
The world is full of teeth, and I have seen the things that wear them.
And my heart, I now understand, has chosen the darkness.
I didn’t just feed the curse, Lyssa. I reveled in it. I was a connoisseur of fear.”
My mouth crashes down on hers, but it is not a kiss. It is a claiming. A desperate, savage fusion of bone and soft flesh, of death and life.
“What you have with him, what I have with Kaerith—it is not a gentle thing. It is a constant negotiation with a beautiful, deadly storm. His love will not tame the monster inside him. It will only give that monster a new and more terrible focus. The hunger doesn’t go away. It just… redirects.”
My guilt does nothing for Lyssa. It is a selfish, indulgent emotion that centers my own pain rather than hers.
learning to love without burning.”

