Eldritch (The Eating Woods, #2)

by Keri Lake

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; —Lord Byron

“The world doesn’t always play fair. It may give something back, but it’ll take from you in exchange.”

“Women love a flexible lover. Ask your mother.”

He always said a well-read woman is a beautifully fearsome creature.”

“I think love is more important now than ever before. Love is what grounds us. Gives us hope. It reminds us that, even when the world is slowly crumbling away, love is everlasting. But what do I know? I’ve always been impractically in love.”

“You’re a fate I never dared to dream, moon witch. The stars I was never meant to grasp. But seeing how this gluttonous world devours the unclaimed, I’m calling you mine.”

“My precious daughter. You were not meant to become a delicate flower, but the frost that wilts the vine. It is your strength in a world that seeks warmth and frailty in a woman. Steel your bones, and do not bend, or break to their will. Accept what you are and what you will become.” “What am I to become?” “Vindicated.”

“I would call you the soft glow of moonlight in a pitch-black world.

Gods, was it possible to love someone too much? So much the mere thought of losing them stirred panic in the heart? Felt like a suffocating fist around the chest?

“Maevyth…you cannot serve as my shield your entire life. That leaves nothing for you. You have to let me go.”

“I love you.” “Only a fraction of how much I love you.”