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

by Rachel Gillig

To the child in each of us, yearning to be special.

More importantly, she called me hers, and said it with such pride that I spent my days chasing her approval that I might hear it again.

No one is as decent as they think.

what a happy thing to be indistinct from them.

never complained, never said no. My worth was written by the rules I followed. But then the abbess called me resentful—a martyr. And maybe I am. But didn’t I become that way because her love cost as much?”