The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

by Rachel Gillig

“If you value your friend when he fights your battles for you—when he is rogue and ruthless—you must value him when he is gentle, too. Otherwise you do not value him at all.”

“I am a battlefield of admiration.” He nodded at the horizon. “I cannot decide which I like best. The sunrise, or the sunset. They are like life, and her quiet companion, death.”

“If I am wonderful and wretched for learning the truth of the Omens, your hands are marked by the blood of my metamorphosis.”