Gothikana Quotes
"It was the absence of color, the keeper of dark, the abyss of unknowns."
"Little Corvina had heard it all but she knew they were untrue. Her mother wasn’t a witch or a freak. Her mother was her mother."
"For as long as she could remember, her mother had taken her to a clearing a few minutes away from their little cottage every morning to feed the crows."
"Her mama didn’t talk much but she did hear voices, voices that told her things."
"Corvina didn’t talk much either. But Corvina knew she was loved. It was just the way her mama was."
"If her mother was a freak, then maybe so was she."
"Dear Miss Clemm, The University of Verenmore is pleased to extend our offer of admission to you."
"Living in the tiny cottage she’d grown up in, making jewelry and candles and doing readings to earn had become monotonous."
"I’d say keep your wits ‘bout you," the driver concentrated as the incline got steeper. "Dunno if the place’s haunted but somethin’s not right with it."
"Just imagine, where else would you find a catalog of the baddest, broodiest of boys but with actual brains? Right here, that’s where."
"Her last roommate threw herself off the tower roof. So, watch yourself with her."
"Is it true? What he said?" she asked Jade and watched as the other girl’s pale hand trembled slightly as she unpacked.
"I hope he comes back with a few friends next time," she muttered without thinking.
"Stay out of the woods, little crow. Your feathery friends can’t help you if you’re dead."
"I’m not surprised they’d think it’s haunted too."
"I’m equally confused, girl," Erica chimed in.
"It’s one of those crazy stories’ kids tell around the bonfire, you know?"
"They say there was a group of students at the university about hundred years ago."
"But it’s said that after a few times, people at the university found out what was going on and decided it was enough."
"The Slayers," he fidgeted, speaking in a hushed voice.
"The only safe place is the eye. He is the storm. He will keep you safe."
"It was the day I turned eighteen. I phoned them, and they came the next day to take her away."
"My mother has been hearing voices and seeing things for years."
"I hear voices too. Always have, one particular voice."
"The doctors told me I didn’t have any symptoms, and basically wrote Mo off as my subconscious’ way of coping."
"I'm sorry for your loss too, Mr. Hunter. Troy is missed."
"You play so beautifully. Even your demons must sing."
"Her mother loved her so much, but she didn’t know how to love her right."
"Everyone deals with their pain in different ways."
"Some things just never had explanation here."
"His death was a tragedy. My condolences, Mr. Hunter."
"But Alissa, that was her name, went to the same tower roof and wouldn't listen to anyone when they called and jumped off."
"Verenmore had always belonged to the Deverell family line."
"Get lost before I throw you off this damn mountain, Hunter."
"I don’t feed money into the Squad for you to run your mouth."
"And I can’t give the truth to someone I don’t trust not to flee yet."
"You earn my trust and I earn yours, and you'll get all the answers you want."
"I am the devil you know, not the devil you don't."
"I can’t study anymore. If I have to read one more date for History, I will do something drastic."
"As long as no one disappeared this time, that is."
"Whoever it was began to burn the body and then stopped. Either they were interrupted, or they only wanted to burn the upper half."
"You should’ve known my motives could never be completely selfless. I am selfish, and I want everyone who looks at you knowing you belong to a very selfish man."
"She feels the same, Mr. Deverell. She feels exactly the same."
"I went to Tenebrae on the weekend for a legal meeting and found this. The color reminded me of your eyes right after you come. It was a dress made for you to wear and for me to take off."
"Then I would have died in your arms while coming, and what a beautiful death it would’ve been."
"I think you definitely should put an offer on the house, Dr. Kari."
"My little witch, I went to Tenebrae on the weekend for a legal meeting and found this."
"I’m the one people would run away from, and he’s not. He’s the mountain I build my castle on."
"I will not let you go into the unknown alone."
"The slut went and slept with him. He was mine."
"You beautiful girl," the deep, gravel voice came from somewhere behind them.
"Don’t come any closer, Vad," she yelled through her tears.
"The chaos inside her was going to make her head explode."
"I know everything that happens in Verenmore, don’t I?"
"The voices won’t stop," she managed to whisper somehow.
"Look at me! Stay with me," his deep, gravel voice ordered.
"A life without his violet-eyed witch was the scariest thing Vad could imagine."
"He had loved his melancholy until she had touched him with her magic."
"She was his, for now and for life, and if there was an afterlife, then maybe in that too."
"We belong together. You and I, we are the perfect fit."
"The love for this woman... swelled within him, brimming, overflowing."
"Gothikana by C.V. Deverell – A fictional gothic romance story."
"It’s time for us to go home, Vad," she rubbed her thumb over his jaw.
"I love you, mama," Corvina choked, throwing her arms around her mother’s neck.
"Yes, I will keep her safe. You can rest easy now."