72 Quotes by Emily A. Duncan

We’re all monsters, Nadya.” Malachiasz said, his voice gaining a few tangled chords of chaos. “Some of us just hide it better than others.

Things won’t seem as bleak in the morning. Morning is wiser than evening.

You are a creature of darkness and chaos and starlight.

Two thrones, two kings, two boys to plunge the world into darkness for the sake of saving it.

Instead he sought out the cleric, holed up in the library as ever, because, as she put it, where else was she supposed to be?

I wanted to show you peace.

Once there was a boy who was shattered into pieces and put back together in the shape of a monster. Once there was a boy who clutched at the remnants of what he had left as it fell through his fingers. Once there was a boy who destroyed what little there was remaining because it wasn’t enough.

Darkness was something he was intimately used to; darkness was nothing to him. He has lived and toiled and learned in darkness. This was both more than that and yet something else entirely.

He was a nightmare – the echoes she still felt of his power were troubling – but he was gentle. Anxious and strange, a boy caught up in a world that had broken him, all while trying to do something good for once.