Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies (The Peaches and Honey Duology Book 2)

by R. Raeta

“I’m certain the opinions of strangers weigh less than the joy you would be robbing yourself of if you let yourself fear them.”

“It is hard for me to see beauty in many of man’s wonders,” he admits, voice haunted by memories. “I was there when it was built. I saw the lives its foundation was built on. It only stands because a great many suffered. The same with so many of man’s marvels—the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall in China, the Colosseum in Rome.” He shakes his head. “You see a marvel, but I still see the blood those stones were baptized in.”