Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds #2)

by Micaiah Johnson

There’s nothing you can tell me about the right way to bruise flesh if your only rule is don’t.

It didn’t matter which version was true. They were all real. Stories should never be believed, but they should always be trusted.

When they didn’t deliver the killer up for charges they weren’t saying, He didn’t do it. They were saying, He was allowed to.

They’ll learn that to love something is to open wide and hope what you love is digestible. They’ll learn that if you love so much you consume the thing you love whole, neither of you will survive and neither will your love.

Stories are powerful, and none are more powerful than the ones you let others tell you about yourself.

“Exlee says jealousy is a poison you make for others but drink yourself.”

You can’t solve any craving for excess by stopping the act. You’ve got to solve what made them need, which is a separate thing entirely. Need can make any act harmful. Even love.

“It feels good to criticize others into the ground when we are right and we know they are wrong. But it’s not good, it’s righteous, and the two seldom have anything to do with each other.”

That’s all growth is, getting too big to stay somewhere that used to feel good. Just having one less place in the whole world that fits right.