Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #3)

by Jay Kristoff

‘The books we love, they love us back.’

‘Sometimes the past won’t just die. Sometimes you have to kill it.’

‘You know what they say. What doesn’t kill me had better fucking run.’

“Fuck me very gently, then fuck me very hard.” ’

‘You stay on this ship as long as you fucking please.’

But ever and always, Mia Corvere walked on.

‘… YOU HAVE THE HEART OF A LION …’

‘You kiss like you kill, Mia Corvere.’

Whatever you did then meant you can be here in my arms now. That makes it right.

Blessings and curses fall on the wicked and the just alike. Fair is a fairy tale.

‘And I’ll not let you drown.’

(‘When in doubt, always go for the bollocks’).

‘I give no fucks for whose cock you got spat from. I’m not leaving you.’

‘TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS TO NEVER DIE,’

‘I am the war you cannot win.’

‘Never fear.’ ‘And never forget.’

‘Two halves at war within me. And the one that will win is the one that I feed.’

‘You fear.’ The girl shook her head. ‘Worse. I love.’

Night be damned. Suns be damned. Moon be damned.

Never flinch. Never fear. Never forget.

You never know what can break you until you’re falling apart. You never miss your shadow until you’re lost in the dark.

She loved with a heart as fierce as lions. Gave in a way that left her bleeding, but never broken.