Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)

by Penn Cole

If you are outnumbered or overwhelmed, or if all seems lost, just keep moving. Onward, until the very last breath.

“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer, I suppose. And closer still if you don’t know which is which.”

“They want us to feel small, Eleanor. They want us to be quiet, be predictable, be unimportant, behave. Then they make us think we deserve it. But I think they’re just terrified we’ll stop listening to them and start listening to each other. And do you know why they’re so scared of women like us?”

there will be no confusion. You will know that I have claimed you—and I won’t have any desire to deny it.”

“That if a man made you doubt whether his love for you would survive anything, he does not deserve you.”

“Everyone says this phoenix represents dying and coming back as something new, but I disagree. I think it’s a symbol of surviving when the world burns down around us. It’s a reminder that no challenge can destroy the parts of us that truly matter. We’re not reborn in the flames. We’re revealed.”

Both misunderstood, for although we often ran from the shadowy unknown toward the clarity of day, the light could blister and burn just as the dark could shield and soothe. It was in the meeting of the two, the dusk and the dawn, where peace was truly at its height.

“But remember you are a phoenix, too. We do not fear the flames, for the hotter we burn, the higher we fly.”