The sugar flavour of meadow wrapped nectar in the air, and my eyes searched for its source, your face the essence of what I had been waiting for all those cold and lonely years my family had made me the guardian of Elysian and hell, until you stepped into my world like a galaxy bursting in front of an astronomer's telescope.

"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me."

Some scars are carved into our bones—a part of who we are, shaping what we become.

Pain

My mother’slove, the absence of my mother’s love,meant the world to me—thisworld, in which I wasted my lifeon the ecstasy of craving.

"Artemis with shafts of gold loves archery and the slaying of wild beasts in the mountains, the lyre also and dancing and strong-voiced song and shady woods and the cities of upright men."

"She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell."