The Ascended (The Aesymarean Duet, #1)

by Bree Grenwich

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

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

Too true

"I don't need anything from you." His voice was fierce. "I just need you to exist. To be here. To let me help carry this until you can carry it yourself again." "And if that's never?" "Then I'll carry it forever." He said it like a simple fact. Like the sun rising. "That's what loving someone means."

Love. What a cursed, vicious thing.