Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)

by Kristin Cashore

BACON IMPROVED THINGS dramatically.

“Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”

Bitterblue loved Katsa and Po with a love as big as the earth. But she knew what it was like to be lost on the edges of their love for each other.

“It is not the job of a child to protect her mother. It’s the mother’s job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?”

“But that’s how memory works,” Bitterblue said quietly. “Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.” And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.”