The Ice (The Bound and the Broken, #3.5)

by Ryan Cahill

‘To survive, is not to live,’ he could hear Naia whispering in his mind. But they must first survive to live, my love.

“All hope ever does is convince us to do things we know we shouldn’t. It isn’t worth dying for.”

“Pain doesn’t make you weak, Ihvon. It makes you human. Sometimes the only thing that reminds me I’m still human is how much everything hurts.”

There was a subtle difference between weeping and crying. There were a thousand reasons to shed a tear, but weeping was born of grief and grief alone.

‘Our legacies are in the lives we change, the words we keep, the legends we create, and the people we create them with.’

“Even amongst millions, one still matters. No death is made insignificant by more death. Talk to Elara. Don’t make choices yet. You’ve given enough.”