The Ascended (The Aesymarean Duet, #1)

by Bree Grenwich

"And I think maybe adventure isn't always about going somewhere new. Sometimes it's about finding something worth staying for."

I was Thais Morvaren, wielder of stars, and I had come here to learn how to kill a god.

"You think you could break me?" "Break you?" His laugh was cold. "Breaking would be such a waste. I'd much rather watch you bend."

and I wondered—gods, I wondered what I might have become if I hadn't spent the last decade choking on my own potential.

"He's arrogant, controlling, and being around him makes me want to commit violence." "Sounds like foreplay to me."

The anticipation of pain is often worse than pain itself."

She laughed. “Death isn’t cruel, my dear. It simply is. The same applies to its domain.”

"Hope isn't something you're good or bad at," he said. "It's a choice you make every day. Sometimes every hour."

"Only those who recognized the truth—that desire unchecked becomes destruction—found salvation in trusting the unknown."

"Observing and doing are very different things,"

"Because passion without loyalty is simply another form of chaos,"

"I'll be the one looking like I'm about to commit several acts of treason for a woman."