The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

by James Islington

a man is known by his failings until he is known by his actions.

Just because you are not right for a place does not mean you were never meant to be there.

Words sound the same coming from the honest and the deceiving, the informed and the deceived.

“A society cannot make a man a monster, Diago. But it can give him the excuse to become one.”

“She told me that a child needs to hear and truly understand only three phrases from their father as they grow up. ‘I love you.’ ‘I will help.’ And, ‘I don’t know.’

It’s the hidden truth of how we eventually have to face the world—of being an adult. None of us know.”

“But sometimes, talent and empathy fight for the same air. You always found things so easy that your expectations of others got skewed. You never really understood what they can and cannot do.”

“Freedom is as much about leaving things behind as it is about not being chained.

Grief never really leaves you, but at some point it becomes remembered rather than enveloping.