To Kill a Shadow (Mistlands, #1)

by Katherine Quinn

To all those who have known the weight of darkness and still shine. You’re stronger than you know.

Hope is a dangerous thing to possess.

I’d learned that day that sometimes we have to give away pieces of ourselves to others we love, even if it hurts at the time. Without sacrificing those parts, nothing new—and possibly wonderful—could grow in their stead.

Courage is unlocking the door to your cage and taking flight. True bravery is burning the cage to the ground.

Love is not the absence of self, but rather, the absence of fear, For only the brave drop their armor and walk onto a battlefield with their hearts exposed.