Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

A tragic inheritance, seeing your mother’s flaws crop up within yourself and having the awareness to know it but no idea how

It had occurred to her many times over that “impossible” was merely a word people used to describe limitations they wished for you to adhere to, so you wouldn’t upset the balance.

She knew exactly what needed to be done, but her bravery wasn’t up to the task, her heart not yet healed from the battering it had taken the last time she’d challenged it this way. But emotional scars sometimes demanded to be reopened—to let out the remainder of the pain, to free you from it.

it wasn’t thoughtless bravery that won the fiercest battles—it was welcoming the fear that lived inside your heart, in your mind, and harnessing it to carry your feet forward, knowing it couldn’t control you.