The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets Quotes

“You might look like an angel, Snowflake, but you command all my demons,” he whispered.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“But how?” said someone else, a woman I’d never spoken to before. “I don’t understand—I’ve never seen anything like it before. All that godlight…and she hasn’t even been endowed!”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Goddess Artemis. It is an honor to be in your presence.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“It’s good to finally meet you, Sera,” she said, stepping deeper into the room, nodding like she was pleased with whatever she saw in me. “We’ve been waiting for you for a very long time.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Yes, Sinclair, the monsters are gone,” said Carmine, her hair loose around her shoulders, her eyes wide and as blue as the sky outside the windows. “You killed them all.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Maybe it wasn’t godlight at all,” said another man I’d never spoken to.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“I saw the dagger—it was halfway inside me…was it? Because I felt the heat of the blood, but the pain was barely there, and I realized the dream weaver was trying to twist it around, push it deeper inside of me, but it wouldn’t go. The leather of my vest wouldn’t let it.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Something was rising inside me, something foreign, but a part of me all the same. Something that had always been there, but I felt it for the first time, too. Something bad. Shade was out there, and I wasn’t.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Something was rising inside me, something foreign, but a part of me all the same. Something that had always been there, but I felt it for the first time, too.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Remember the boogieman stories they used to tell us when we were kids?” she said. “Well, they’re like that, except worse, and real, and a lot of them.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Mortals, get in the back,” she said, pointing at the deep darkness at the end of the cave. “Why?” I choked, unsure why it even mattered—hadn’t the world gone to shit already? Why would I bother to pretend like I understood anything? And we were safe here, weren’t we? That door was insanely big, impenetrable—why would we need to move back? Carmine’s wide blue eyes locked with mine, and she whispered, “Because they can smell you.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Death’s greatest trick was turning Time into an ally and convincing it to stay in the dark. For if we knew when Death comes for us, we wouldn’t bother to live. Instead, we indulge ourselves in this hope—despite the certainty of Death—that it will not come for us. We choose to believe that we will escape it somehow, in some unthinkable way, because to live is the greatest desire our Father has both blessed and cursed us with.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Do you even know who he is?” Avery whispered in my ear from behind me, so low I barely heard it. I turned to look at her, no longer able to even be startled. “Do you?” I asked because she seemed to think that she did. But she raised her hands and shrugged without a word, as if to say, just warning you. She could keep her damn warnings to herself”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Avery Johnson said to the others, “Are you kidding me? That’s her?!”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Mortal flesh is their favorite food, and they’re coming for you. I suggest you get to the fucking Vault like your life depends on it—because it does.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Our godlight works better in his darkness. There's too many of them—we need him!”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“His father. Alan was Max’s father.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“I saw Alan, too—she’s just a little girl, he'd said. She’s Mim’s age—she’s just a little girl! “Mim,” I choked because of course. Of course, I remembered that name—how could I forget? “That’s me,” Max said,”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Hey, that’s my dad.” I looked at him. “What?” “My dad. That’s him.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“How crazy that we can miss something that never even existed. I missed the life I could have had with all my heart.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Even if it’s hard as shit and could potentially cost you your life as you know it?” “I’m no pro at this, but yeah. Choosing the right way is pretty hard, especially when you have to walk it alone, without the people you care about or those who were supposed to protect you.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“It is true, though—so much of this we can’t control. But you wanna know something I learned only recently?” She rolled her eyes dramatically and pretended to be annoyed. “Sure, why not.” “It’s what we do with what we’re given that makes the difference.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Hold onto it, and when this is over, give it a read,” Mave said.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“I got you this, too.” She handed me a small book next with colorful covers—a children’s book.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“You’re my hero, Sera Sinclair,” he said, cheeks red and those big curls of his hair bouncing all over the place. “I’ll be the damn villain soon if you don’t get me that coffee,” I said.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“To the few of Hades’s Bloodline who have access to the Void. It’s kind of like a double-edged sword. The easier they access the Void, the more powerful they are, but the more power the Void has over them as well, you know? I only know what I’ve heard here and there, but the Void takes over every once in a while, and they can’t really control it. Nobody truly understands the Void, but they do know how to minimize the damage it can cause by making vessels of gold and warding the hell out of them to keep it contained.” “Contained,” I muttered. I didn’t like that word—it wasn’t true. The Void couldn’t be contained. At least it didn’t feel like it.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“Why aren’t you afraid of my secrets, Snowflake?” he asked, and I could have laughed. “Everybody has secrets,” I said instead. “I have secrets of my own. So many of them.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“This beautiful man, even when he was made out of darkness, was everything my heart beat for. His face, with or without color, was my eyes’ favorite thing.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“What’s the rush?” I said, shaking my head. “We’re in the Void.” We were always in the Void when we were together. “We are, but I can’t control it,” he told me. “It…it consumes me every now and then. It takes over me and the darkness disconnects from me. It rages. It rebels.” His every word rang true. “It consumes everything in its path until it’s full.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets

“They didn’t know Shade the way I did. They’d never worn his darkness on their skin. They’d never belonged in his Void.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets