A Tribute of Fire (The Eye of the Goddess, #1)

by Sariah Wilson

“You will be the one to carry this legacy forward. You will keep the word. Someone in Locris must remember the old ways, how we worshipped the goddess, and find a way to regain her favor to restore our lands. Your older sister will marry and leave. Your brother will be beholden to the law and his people. But you? You will have a choice about your life’s path. And you should choose to remember what was and what might be.”

“You must always remember that all the answers you need are in the written word,” she continued. “In scrolls, in

poems, in songs, in books. Find the right words and you will have your answer.” She had turned out to be right. A single line in the book had caught my attention and changed the entire course of my life. Only the eye of the goddess can restore Locris.

This belief that women were special enough to be pleasing to the goddess, but that we were ultimately easy to discard and unimportant. Strong enough to be slaughtered but not important enough to fight for.

“My little flowers, you have always been so brave.”

“The code says that there is no honor in a man who rushes to war because he doesn’t care if he dies. There is valor in battle for those who desire to live. Courage can only exist in the same space that fear does.”

“It only takes one person to change the world, one person to save a life,”

To the blue, to the blue Head to the blue, the blue Where the sea meets the sky On the water we’ll fly

Off to sail, off to roam Salty waves are our home To the blue, to the blue, Head to the blue, the blue