Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo

All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.

“When faced with death, better to dance than to lie down for it.”

Maybe that grief, that longing fostered by stories of more beautiful worlds and their infinite possibility, was what made them all such easy prey

That was all there was in this world. No heroes or villains, just the people you’d brave the waves for, and the ones you’d let drown.

He had a sense that they had entered into an uneasy truce, but he couldn’t quite name the war.

“I’m bound to you, Stern. To the woman who brought me out of hell. I will serve you ’til the end of days.”