The Assassin and the Desert (Throne of Glass, #0.3)

by Sarah J. Maas

“Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things? How do they find it acceptable?”

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be.”