The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

by Erika Johansen

“Marriage is stupid,” Aisa snapped, gritting her teeth as Coryn pulled the thread tight. “You’ll never catch me getting married.”

Maybe we aren’t capable of being satisfied, Kelsea thought, and the idea seemed to open a chasm inside her. Maybe utopia is beyond us.

The mistake of utopia is to assume that all will be perfect. Perfection may be the definition, but we are human, and even into utopia we bring our own pain, error, jealousy, grief. We cannot relinquish our faults, even in the hope of paradise, so to plan a new society without taking human nature into account is to doom that society to failure. —The Glynn Queen’s Words, as compiled by Father Tyler

The circumstances of your birth don’t matter. Kindness and humanity are everything.