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.”

“The whole world is a wood, Bartholomew, and everyone in it is fashioned of birch bark. Frail as paper.”

It is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else’s cause than to sit with who we are without one.”