Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)

by Laini Taylor

elilith (el·LIL·lith) noun Tattoos given to the girls of Weep, around their navels, when they become women. Archaic; from the roots eles (self) + lilithai (destiny), signifying the time when a woman takes possession of her destiny, and determines the path of her own life.

She was a ghost and he was a god, and they kissed like they’d lost their dream and found it.

“There’s the kind of guest who’s honored to be invited, and the kind who believes he’s bestowing honor by accepting.”

She was sky and night and everything, suns and novas and the surface of the sea.

There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else. And if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it’s all you are.

We might be at odds, hate each other, and desire each other’s destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.

STEPPED ON BY AN ANGEL IN THE PRIME OF HIS LIFE.