9 Quotes by Alexis Henderson

I have seen the evils of this world, and I have loved them

Reading was one of the few things she felt she was truly good at, one of the few things she prided herself on.

Isn't it strange how reading a book is a sin, but locking a girl in the stocks and leaving her to the dogs is another day of the Good Father's work?

I have seen the Beast and her maidens again. I hear their cries in the woods at night. They call to me, and I call to them. There is no love as pure as that.

Sometimes I think we share a soul. His pain has become mine. And mine his.

I love him. He taught me how. I don't think I knew how to choose to love until I met him.

To be woman is to be a sacrifice.

There were wreaths of wildflowers, tokens and tributes, even a small pair of children’s shoes hanging from a fence post by the laces - as though someone believed the child they belonged to might one day emerge from the trees to claim them. These relics were all that remained of those who were lost to the Darkwood. For what the forest took it rarely returned.

Pain carved through her belly and a great roaring filled her ears as the shadows rose around her. The last thing Immanuelle saw, before the night swallowed her, was the bright of the moon, winking through the trees.