Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

by Pierce Brown

but she could be made from air, from the ether that binds the stars in a patchwork.

“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains.

“In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down,” he says.