Flame and Sparrow (Flame and Sparrow Duology Book 1)

by S.M. Gaither

For everyone who’s ever been told they’re ‘too much’— Go ahead and burn as brightly as you want to.

“Sometimes admitting we’re lost is the first step to finding the way, isn’t it?”

A monster, but a monster who had gifted me the sun. Who had offered me healing in every way he could after my trials…and then let me go when he saw no other way to aid in that healing. He was still the villain. I couldn’t forget that. It was just… In my head, I’d written our story much differently.

“Sometimes we hold on to painful things, I think, because letting them go feels like letting go of the person who gave them to us.”

anger was a strange well to draw from; the more you drank of it, the thirstier you became.

You’ve ruined me, I’m afraid,

But I was beginning to think that a mind that was unwilling to change was not necessarily a strength.

We have a story in my old kingdom, that when the one you’re meant to be with enters the world, they steal a part of your soul with their first breath. “And you exist, missing that part, until they find you and breathe it back into you. Miran-achth refers to the breath—the part that is missing. You can survive without it. Plenty do. But to have the missing piece is to breathe easier, more deeply.