Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy, #2)

by Callie Hart

This was hard, loving him. I’d barely slept a wink all day, worrying about him.

I could never imagine the kind of love I would need to feel to choose that path for myself.

“Come now, Osha. Where else would an acolyte kneel to worship but at the altar of his god?”

All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.

“Aren’t we just the same? Made from the same material as the sea and the dirt and the sky? Folded from the scraps of the gods and entrusted with a spark of magic that makes us real?”

Where any kind of life exists, magic proliferates, Saeris. We create all the wonders of this realm just by being present to witness them, and it’s always magic that lights the way. That is what I believe.”

I wanted to hold her; the fact that she wasn’t in my arms right now felt like the greatest injustice that had ever been inflicted upon me.

“Dreams are just vapor and smoke,” I said. “They mean nothing unless you’re willing to live them.

A heart ruled by hatred and fear could not experience miracles.