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

by Sarah J. Maas

And for that one heartbeat, when there was nothing more to it than that, she tasted bliss so complete that she tipped her head back to the sky and laughed.

“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.”

“When you give your master his letter, also give him this. And tell him that in the Red Desert, we do not beat our disciples.”