More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
July 8 - July 10, 2023
“You are mine, and I am yours. But I will not force you to be with me if you do not love me the way I love you, my star. You’ll be safe in the Winter Court, and you will die your true death when your natural time comes,”
“You’re the bane of my existence,”
“And you are everything I have always wanted and more,”
“See how brightly you burn when you lean into all that hatred in your heart? Think of what you could do if you didn’t waste it on the one person in this world who loves you more than anything.”
You are my balance. Everything good that exists inside of me comes from you. If I lost you, you might as well burn the world to ash,”
I was trapped on the other side of the Veil waiting for you. Just waiting for centuries to be able to hold you.”
“And then it broke, and I met you and you were everything I’d ever dreamed you would be and more.
“I won’t lose you again,” he said, lifting his head until his eyes met mine once more. “I will follow you, because what remains after you’re gone will be a broken shell that will do more harm than good. All I want is to be with you. Tell me how to make that happen, Estrella.”
“It is time for the stars in the sky to rest for the day, Little One, and that means the star I hold in my arms must rise,”
“You are my mate. I will always protect you, min asteren. No matter what the cost,”
This was the kind of love stories were made of, the kind that poets wrote sonnets about. The kind little girls dreamed of finding when they lay in their beds at night and tried to imagine the man who would one day become their husband.
“Why would I want to fight with you? All I want is to love you,”
“I love you, Estrella. I have loved you for centuries and waited for you to be mine. If there is no hope, no chance of you accepting me into your heart in truth, then I will gladly allow you to be the one to end my eternity of suffering. If the last thing I see is your face, then I can go to the Void in peace.”
“Claim your freedom, Estrella, because if you do not, I will never let you go. Do you understand me? I will not stop until you have accepted me—until you’re my mate in truth. I will take from you, but I will give you more love than you could have ever imagined. This is your moment to choose, min asteren. You can have your freedom or you can have me, but you cannot have both,”
“I love you. In this life or the afterlife, my star. I will always wait for you.”
It was the death of Estrella Barlowe of Mistfell that The Fates claimed. The death of all I had been before the fall of the Veil.
“I can promise you my mother will allow you unrestricted access to the library in my absence, Little One. She’ll treat you as if you are her own child, because as my mate, you’ll be the closest thing she’s ever had,”
Women needed to be better, to do better, because at the end of the day, every one of our actions could see us condemned—while men were free to fuck and murder, to steal and lie, and it was all just brushed off as another day under the sun.
“I am going to love you until the stars disappear from the night sky and the sun ceases to shine. Until the world returns to the void from whence it was born and chaos reigns once again.”
“Until chaos reigns and eternity begins anew, and for every moment after,”
same way. “My soul, my heart, my flesh, and my sword are yours, and if ever there should come a day when your heart ceases to beat, I will follow you into the Void.”
