All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom, #3)

by Tahereh Mafi

“You’ve never been allowed to drop the crushing weight of imperial expectations,” Hazan said quietly, staring now into the distance. “Others are not so encumbered as you. That does not make them inferior.”

If you spend your days waiting for your sorrows to end so that you might finally live”—he shook his head—“you will die an impatient man.”

“I don’t want any blood near my books.”