Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)

by Leigh Bardugo

“Why don’t you watch your fat feet?”

oh- it is chapter one

impenetrable darkness that grew with every passing year and crawled with horrors.

We’d slammed the book shut and run squealing out into the safety of the sunlight

“You know I’d be lost without you.”

I got the impression that Mal wanted to forget everything about the place, maybe even me. There he’d been another lost refugee, another orphan made to feel grateful for every mouthful of food, every used pair of boots. In the army, he’d carved out a real place for himself where no one needed to know that he’d once been an unwanted little boy.

“Just you and me,” Mal said. “Really?” “It’s always just you and me, Alina.”