Quote by E.L. Schoeman

“The prison was a shiver running up the spine of the shadowed background. The shiver running up Isabel’s spine was only a piece of the haunted, crawling darkness before her. This prison, this disturbed place of long-lost hope, was the place she’d been looking for. -Isabel, by E. L. Schoeman” quote by E.L. Schoeman — Download Open image

““The prison was a shiver running up the spine of the shadowed background. The shiver running up Isabel’s spine was only a piece of the haunted, crawling darkness before her. This prison, this disturbed place of long-lost hope, was the place she’d been looking for. -Isabel, by E. L. Schoeman””

E.L. Schoeman

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