The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

by V.E. Schwab

“We all don clothes that do not fit, and hope we will grow into them. Or at least, grow used to them.”

“We are borrowed things,” said the priest. “Our bodies decay, and our essence—well, magic is the stream that waters all things. It lends itself to us in life, and in death calls it back, and so the stream appears to rise and fall, but it never loses a single drop.”