" I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wondrous weight between my shoulder blades, "When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness starts to stare back. "

― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)