Nightbane (Lightlark, #2)

by Alex Aster

“Every time I see you, I think the gods must play favorites. Every time you’re near me, I am overcome with the urge to bed you, to have you, again and again. I want to devour every inch of you, until you’re all I taste, until you are shaking with pleasure in my arms. That is what I want.”

“It isn’t an ideal. It’s truth. Emotion feeds power. And pain is the strongest.”

“You can hate me, Hearteater, and still want me in your bed.” She laughed in his face. “In your dreams, demon.” “All of the best ones,” he agreed. His eyes seared through her as he looked her slowly up and down. “We do such depraved things, in my dreams.”

“My entire world was night, and you lit a match. No matter what happens to me in this life, I’ll find you in the next one. I’ll always find you. What I feel for you can never be extinguished. Like the nighttime sky, it is infinite. You and me . . . we’re infinite.”