Extraits

"Demons are made of shadow. Don't look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back."

“They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.

But now I knew that every mad word was true.”

"I was raised to marry a monster."

"You were sent here to die. You are the one that was not needed, not wanted, and they sent you here because they knew you would never come back."

He was my enemy. He was evil. He wasn't even human. I should have been disgusted, but just like last time, I couldn't help myself any more than water could stop itself running downhill.

"You came here to die. You're allowed to mourn."

«A virgin knife in a virgin's hand

Can kill the beast that rules the land»

p.29

"(...) We'll pretend we know how to love" I smiled at him. "And someday we'll learn" .

"I love you", he said."I love you more than any other creature because you are cruel, an kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?"

He knew me. And loved me. And he never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to die for him. Maybe I souldn't forgive a monster just because he loved me that way- but-

But loving me that way made him a monster. My doom was the price for saving Arcadia, and only a monster would care more about me than saving thousands upon thousands of innocents. Shade was the last prince; of course he if he could save only one, he would choose Arcadia.