Teaser Tuesday: The Alchemy of Forever & All I Ever Wanted

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 
• Share the Title & Author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Shannon's Teaser: 


  "You won't find any comfort in death," I promise her. "It's a void. It's nothing. You only want to die if you desire nothingness. If you don't want to be alone, that means you're still alive. There's hope."
  "Who are you?" she asks. I can barely hear her voice over the wind.
  I think back over my unnaturally long life--my childhood in London, swimming in the south of France, arriving in San Francisco in the 1960's--and scroll through all the names I've gone by starting with Seraphina and ending with Jennifer. I look her in the eye. "I am no one."

~pg. 57, The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams

Carrie's Teaser:


  I'm supposed to be here with vengeance in mind, but all I can feel is the same need I've always felt when I think about him. I'm worrying about how I look. Courage isn't something you can conjure; it's either in you or it's not. I'm a coward. 

 ~pg. 37, All I Ever Wanted by Vikki Wakefield