Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #2)

by Mark Lawrence

There is a purity in rage. It will burn out sorrow. For a time. It will burn out fear. Even cruelty and hatred will seek shelter, rage wants none of them, only to destroy. Rage is the gift our nature gives to us, shaped by untold years.

Those novices are my friends and I would die for them. I would face a terror for them that I haven’t the courage to stand against on my own behalf.

Never be so focused on picking a lock that you forget kicking down the door is also an option.”

The village and the child-taker weren’t things she had placed value in, or even liked, but they were her things, part of her own story, and you couldn’t choose those, not when you were a child.

“Spend too long watching the long game and the short game will kill you.”

“My father told me, your weaknesses have more to teach you than your strengths.”