The Alchemists of Loom (Loom Saga, #1)

by Elise Kova

People only ever saw what they expected, rarely what was actually there.

Adulthood just meant finding the variety of crazy that resonated the most with you and doing it until you died or it killed you—whichever came first.

“We are people, not worlds. And you commit the faults you blame me for. You judge me for the actions of my entire race. You see me as a Dragon before you see me as a man. You ignore my good will and attempts at peace, only looking for banners

of war between my words. And when you find none, you invent them, so that I better fit your expectations.”

“Arrogance and confidence are not the same, but both will get you killed.”

Don’t let the shadows of the past smother the possibility for a bright future.”

He wanted her to always be at his side, threatening to cut him if he was stupid.

The girl had seen vision in her, when there had only

ever been vengeance. Both drove, both were pursued with all the passion of the soul.

But a soul driven by vengeance was a selfish soul. A soul driven by vision...