A Twist of the Blade (Shadows and Crowns, #2)

by S.M. Gaither

“I’ve been thinking on the matter all night,” she said, “and I am still not sure who or what you are, but I will say this—I have yet to sense any malice in you. You faced death for your friends. You embrace the magic inside of you, even though it makes no sense to you or anyone else. And now you refuse to call love a weakness, even when it so very clearly weakened someone you obviously care about. You are…intriguing. And I sense that there is something important about you, even though I myself cannot say whether that feeling is good or bad. But my benevolent upper-goddess would want me to aid you, I feel, in hopes that it might tilt you toward the good.”

You can be afraid, and you’re allowed to feel stuck…you just can’t stay there. You have to keep going until you see what’s on the other side of that fear.