An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)

by James Islington

For I did not know which was harder to bear: The echo of her passing, or the long silence that followed.

“The lesser of two evils, and the greater good. The most dangerous phrases in the world.”

“Because better to let a monster live than to condemn the world.”

The day on which you decide not to question what you believe, is the day that you start making excuses for why you believe it.”

“Because that is not who you are—and it never was. It is the name you chose in order to instill fear in us, the name you chose because you wanted to pretend that your sins were not yours to own. But when we speak of you, Tal’kamar, we speak of you—for better or worse. Whether destroyer or savior, we will never let you hide behind another name.”