A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)

by V.E. Schwab

men who waded into waters claiming they could swim should not need a raft.

A selfish part of Kell wanted to share them with his brother, so that he wouldn’t feel so alone, so that someone else would see, would know. But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn’t really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.

And perhaps that was the test of faith, to know, and not to say, to live with knowing, and let the truth live only in one’s head.