Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

by Fonda Lee

Nothing good’s coming, when the dogs start disappearing from the streets.”

True love, Hilo mused, was sensual and euphoric, but also painful and tyrannical, demanding obedience.

Hilo has no idea what true love is. I'm sincerely worried for Wen if he ever finds out what she's up to.

Any old horse will run when it’s whipped, but only fast enough to avoid the whipping,” Hilo said. “Racehorses, though, they run because they look at the horse on their left, they look at the one on their right, and they think, No way am I second to these fuckers.”

“Expectations are a funny thing,” Wen said. “When you’re born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you’ve never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life.”

So true.