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DNF: Unable to complete this book for a few reasons. One being that SO much time passes between the main characters meeting up & I know they have commitment issues but damn, several years pass. Two, for a dark romance it didn’t feel very dark aside from maybe the murdering but it felt more playful & cheeky than it did scary. Three, they didn’t kiss till half the book was over basically, not very dark or smutty.

“I wondered if that was how Marraige worked, if the memories you made with the person you married started taking over the ones that had come before, like a radio station that faded out on the dial as another one comes in.” - April

“Eddie knew me. He knew more of me than anyone else in the world ever had. But even Eddie didn’t know everything.” - April

“She was sitting up. Her hands gripping the side of the truck bed. She was a teenager, maybe. It was hard to tell because she was unclear, fading in and out. She was… she was staring at us.” - Eddie

“He was avoiding the light, he let us go because he didn’t want to be seen in the light.”

“I’d been in the passenger seat of a car once before, begging the driver to go faster. Please, faster. A long, long time ago.” - April

“I’m sorry… He’s coming.” - Rhonda

“Women like us recognized each other all the time.” - April

What They Seen B4 The Woman: “Through the trees a light glowed… It seemed more like someone turning up a kerosene lamp, making the flame go higher.”

“Calder-blue eyes.” - Clementine (Ability to see ghosts, future & the past as well as turning into half manticore.”

“And just like that, he has me. All of me. The lover and the fighter. The good girl and the rebel. The skeptic and the woman so desperate to believe that she’s standing in the rain and literally begging a boy-begging the boy- to let her help him carry his burdens.” - Clementine

“Heathermoor Academy.”

“He was everything dark and delicious, but there was an edge of depression… of a shared suffering that made it painfully beautiful.”

“Perhaps one day, you will fight for me.” - Nocta

He broke the rules. “Sleep, Harlow. You need to sleep.” The traced a rune across my hand with the hand that wasn’t clenching mine, and sleep crashed into me.

“It’s never just a game, there are too many people who want to make a name for themselves.” - Typhon

“Archaic, barbaric rules meant to chain us be damned.” - Nocta

“I can’t believe I have to say this out loud, but I am not sleeping with Nikita.” - Typhon

“Typhon will save me.” - Harlow

“But also, because a girl wants her dad to be her hero, and not a monster waiting to kill her and her friends.” - Harlow

“It’s better to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.” - Harlow

Harlow… it’s the equivalent to a date-rape drug.” - Typhon

“Do you see it, Harlow? The two paths you can take. Choose one.” - Liam

“Magic without rules and boundaries is nothing but chaos.” - Tarquinius

“And what if that is the only way to protect them, Harlow? What if forcing them to stay safe and bending their will, is the only solution I have?” - Typhon & First Kiss Scene

“The girl wraith called Lucy had plunged to her death right in front of me. And her screams on the way down would haunt me for the rest of my life.” - Harlow page

“He was my warden, and I was his prisoner.” - Harlow

“The way you throw runes is similar to Everdaek magic… Everytime you do it, there is a ripple in the weave… if it tears, and we aren’t able to repair it quickly enough…” - Typhon

“Going to try and choke me again are you?” - Harlow
“Not unless you say please.” - Typhon

“If you won’t obey Doyenne Elmwood, then you will obey me.” - Typhon