79 Quotes About The-darkling

With a start, I realized that the room smelled like him. I had never even noticed that he had a scent. I shut my eyes and breathed deeply. What was it? The crisp edge of a winter wind. Bare branches. The smell of absence, the smell of night.

Why shouldn't I be afraid of you?" I asked. "You're the Darkling. I'm not saying you would throw me in a ditch or ship me off to Tsibeya, but you certainly could. You can cut people in half. I think it's fair to be a little intimidated."He studied me for a long moment, and I wished fervently that I'd kept my mouth shut. But then that half smile flickered across his face. "You may have a point.

You can't control the Fold. It has to be destroyed.""Careful, Alina," he said with a slight smile. "I've had the same thought about you.

You're mad.""I know it pleases you to think so.

I'd like to free you," he said quietly."Free me, flay me. So many options.

He sighed. "It was a threat, Alina. It accomplished what it needed to.""So you wouldn't have cut me?""I didn't say that.

So what do you think of it?" he asked.I glanced at him, then back at the elaborate facade. It was larger than any building I had ever seen, its terraces crowded with statues, its three stories gleaming with row after row of shining windows, each ornamented extensively in what I suspected was real gold."It's very...grand?" I said carefully.He looked at me, a little smile playing on his lips. "I think it's the ugliest building I've ever seen," he said, and nudged his horse forward.

It's madness, I told myself. He wouldn't dare attempt it. The thought brought me little comfort. He always dared.

You want," the Darkling mocked. I want to watch your tracker die slowly with my knife in his heart. I want to let the sea swallow you both. But our fates are entwined now, Alina, and there's nothing either of us can do about that.