The Shadowlands Quotes

“Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find a shadow in the night? I guess that’s why so many people are so obsessed with the idea of bringing things to the light…to the clear, so to speak.”
― Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands

“I knew her better than herself …and she was beautiful and strong and felt deep. It has always surprised me to see the way she saw herself; how little she thought about her person. It struck me as surprising because every single time I’ve seen her, I’ve thought her larger than life. And that’s why the world feared her. Because they couldn’t compare to her; she raised a new bar for others to be measured by. Because looking at the sun hurts…and she was that to me. My own piece of sky.”
― Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands

“I am shadow so I don’t have a face. I am utter darkness like the one that swells within your coldest depths. I am the ultimate judger. I am your final fate. I am the one that brings your darkness to the known.”
― Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands

“Aisha may have all these powers, but they haven’t seen me doing what I knew how to do best…running while screaming.”
― Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands

“We all, at some point or another, dance to somebody's tune. It seems to me that your time has come. Tick-tock, love. Tick-tock.”
― Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands

“Some people go around the mountain, I, for my part, would just blow a hole and then walk through it.”
― Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands