I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies—I exist. I'm tormented on the rack—but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar—I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
—William Shakespeare
SANTO ROMANO
"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; all day I feel its soft feathery turnings, its malignity."
NINA GENOVESE
"She wears strength and darkness equally well; that girl has always been half goddess, half hell."
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Dark Saint [Romano Brotherhood, #1]
RomanceA man claimed by the devil. A woman claimed by no one. Until him. Santo Romano is a monster. His family relies on him to torture and kill. It's his birthright, his curse, and the most delicious punishment for a gluttonous sinner. He's no stranger t...