Shadow Scale (Seraphina, #2)

by Rachel Hartman

A single action could derive from many motivations. I should never assume.

“Haven’t you always been more than yourself? Haven’t we all? We are none of us just one thing.”

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.”

The world is as it must be, and as it happens to be, and those are the same thing, connected and right, and you understand and love all of it, because you are all of it and all of it is you.”