House of Shadows Quotes

“The fluttering emotion in her chest was beaten and bleeding, but still, it lived.”
― Darcy Coates, House of Shadows

“They reached the base of the hill and crossed the smooth stretch of grass toward the house’s entry. Sophie couldn’t keep from staring at the grim building. It could have sprung, fully formed, from one of those mythology books that had given her nightmares as a child. Flying buttresses and Gothic-balustrades covered it’s sides, and the arched, church-like windows grew high in the walls. It looked as though it was constructed by a demented architect; instead of being even and carefully arranged, protrusions and rooms jutted out at strange angles.”
― Darcy Coates, House of Shadows

“The woods noises seemed to engulf her.
Her ears were filled with owl calls, the mutter of settling birds, and the scraping noise of dead tree branches rubbing together. The longer she stood, the more she became convinced she could hear weedy, whispering voices among the trees.”
― Darcy Coates, House of Shadows

“He bent towards her, very slowly and carefully, to kiss where her neck curved into her shoulder. “Or we could figure out another arrangement…”
― Darcy Coates, House of Shadows

“This was the power that turned gladiators into victors in the Colosseum, and kept the wolf from starving during a long winter. And Sophie had never seen anything so electrically, beautifully engrossing. The”
― Darcie Coates, House of Shadows