Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1)

by Jay Kristoff

‘They said he was a traitor.’ A shrug. ‘A traitor’s just a patriot on the wrong side of winning.’

‘Nothing is where you start. Own nothing. Know nothing. Be nothing.’ ‘Why would I want to do that?’ The old man crushed out his cigarillo on the boards between them. His smile made her smile in return. ‘Because then you can do anything.’

The wolf does not pity the lamb. The storm begs no forgiveness of the drowned.’

Iron or glass? they’d asked. Mia clenched her jaw. Shook her head. She was neither. She was steel.

‘The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You’re a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.’