15 Quotes by Eve Silver

Darcie dared not breathe, though an odor, foul and frightful, came uninvited into her nostrils. The smell of evil.

A terrible thing, is it not, when a woman is passed over, left unclaimed like unwanted baggage.

You once thought that I robbed graves, but in truth ’tis you who are the resurrectionist, you who have lifted me from my living tomb.

Here’s my philosophy. Adopt it, and you’ll make it out alive. Every man for himself. You watch your own ass. Your con goes orange? You fall back to defensive position. No heroics. And no stupidity. Got it?

This all feels so familiar. Jackson said a lot of these things to me the first time I got pulled. I didn’t understand any of it then. I didn’t understand him. But now I do. He’ll tell each of us to be selfish, to watch our own backs and no one else’s, but he’ll be wholly unselfish, watching out for all of us, expecting no one to watch out for him.

I believed that letting someone in, caring about them... it gives them power over you, whether they plan it that way or not. It gives them the power to leave, to hurt you. But living, really living, is messy and sometimes ugly and it hurts.