A Vow of Embers (The Eye of the Goddess, #2)

by Sariah Wilson

“Sometimes you should let magic just be magic. If you’re always trying to understand how things are accomplished, you’ll lose your sense of wonder.”

“Women are so often overlooked. Men don’t believe that we could be smarter than them or that we’re capable of defeating them, and so 221we’re always perceived as not being a threat.

People didn’t tell you about that part of grief—how pieces of that person would slip away from you bit by bit until you had nothing left.

I didn’t want that for her. To be just surviving.

You have no idea the power you have over me. How I would give anything if you would only put your hands on me. Your lips. Your tongue. I would scale any mountain, cross any sea, slay any dragon, just for the chance to be with you. I would let you break me apart and rebuild me any way that you wished. You constantly fight with me over everything, determined to win, without realizing that you already have.”