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

by Leigh Bardugo

“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”

“Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”

It was time to let go. That day on the Shadow Fold, Mal had saved my life, and I had saved his. Maybe that was meant to be the end of us.

The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we’d shared, for the love I’d felt, for the hopeful girl I would never be again.