Like calls to like, Alina.

But there was something a little silly about eating “hearty peasant fare” off porcelain plates, beneath a dome inlaid with real gold.Saints forbid we forget we’re real Ravkans.

What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche?

The darkling gently folded me in his arms. He pressed a kiss to the top of my hair 'I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine

The problem with wanting is that it make us weak." - Darkling

The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, "is that it makes us weak.

I got used to seeing him waiting for me at the end of corridors, or sitting at the edge of my bed when I fell asleep at night. When he didn’t appear, I sometimes found myself looking for him or wondering why he hadn’t come, and that frightened me most of all.

Don’t worry, tracker. You’ll know when our deal is up...I’ll be certain you hear it when I make her scream.

I knew there was no bottom to the Darkling's pain. He would just keep falling and falling.