Cursebound (Faebound, #2)

by Saara El-Arifi

Hope can be a torture or a balm, depending on how you accept it.

Dart always said it was his curiosity that would get him killed. But Alder thought it was better to be curious and dead than indifferent and alive.

‘I will continue the deception of your cruelty, Salawa. But know that cruel leaders never last long.’

‘If there is one thing I’ve learned it’s that worthiness is a quality made up by those who wish to justify a hierarchy.’

‘You know, Amnan once said that our love is bound by grief. But I think it’s murder that binds us, Yeeran. No matter how hard we try all we do is kill the people we love.’

We might love each other, Lettle, but without trust we cannot live for each other.’