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21 " For four years she’d subsisted on memories of this—his voice, his face, the sound of his breath and his heartbeat. She felt him like a leaf feels the sun, like a magnet feels metal. "
― Diana Peterfreund , For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)
22 " She lifter the shade and bathed the room in silver. Moonlight glinted off the glass and metal instruments on her desk and vanished into the eaves. Moonlight skimmed over her floorboards and made Nero's eyes a shimmering green. It wasn't enough to work by. It wasn't enough to read by. But who needed to read? She knew them by heart. "
23 " Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of self-pity and pain. "
24 " Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man. "
25 " Dear Elliot,I know. When will I see you again?Yours, Kai "
26 " The real stars don't even fascinate me as much as they used to when I was... younger.""I'm sorry for that, as well. "
27 " For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breath-taking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know who can break it. "
28 " You should know that you’re exactly the person you think you are.”Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That’s what she was afraid of. "
29 " Elliot folded her hands in her lap as Felicia entered the building. She figured Kai would follow, but he remained still, standing over her like a guard. His shadow fell across her lap, and she traced its edges with her hands. The places he's touched her - her torso, her chest, her elbow - still tingled. His words echoed in her ears. He hadn't spoken a word to her directly since that night in the barn. She soaked up every syllable like it was rain on parched soil."You're all right""Careful""Can you stand on your own? "
30 " She still loved the man who called himself Malakai Wentforth. She knew that. But that didn’t matter, just as it hadn’t mattered four years ago. Then, she’d chosen to stay behind. But it didn’t mean she wasn’t curious. It didn’t mean she didn’t want to stand at the edge of the cliffs and stretch her face out toward the sea, toward a world she’d never be allowed to know. "
31 " She knows your mother isn't here to protect you any more. But you know what the solution is: stay out of her way. Stay here. Stay with me. "
32 " How much of her life had she spent waiting? Waiting for a plant to sprout? Waiting for her father’s judgment? Waiting for another letterto appear in the knothole from Kai? Waiting for years after Kai left to feel at peace with her decision? She fed the Reduced, she did her chores, she avoided her father and her sister, and she waited.She did the duties she’d been taught as a Luddite, and she lied with every breath. "
33 " They stared at each other and then, at last, Kai closed his eyes and nodded his head, just once. The estates would always win. "
34 " She could smell the sea in the air, but more than that, she could smell the scent of the grass as it awoke from its winter slumber. She could hear the sound of crickets as they sang to the emerging stars. "
35 " Kai would leave. He'd see the stars. And Elliott would remain, and work the farm, and silence any voice in her heart that screamed for more. "
36 " When we have the ability to save someone’s life, and we decide they aren’t worthy of being saved—isn’t that playing God as well? "
