Fatemarked (The Fatemarked Epic, #1)

by David Estes

“Death is but a change in existence, like rain turning to ice in the north or evaporating to mist in the south.”

“We cannot count on the kindness of strangers here,” he said. “Why not?” “Kindness left this city years ago,” Tarin said. “War does that to a place.”

“It’s not what you start with, it’s what you do with what you’ve been given,”

heroes are not born, they are grown. Each choice is a drop of water, each experience a ray of sunlight. They grow, day by day, until they are the tallest tree in the forest, willing to protect all who live under their shadow.”

“And yet it’s study of the past that saves us from mistakes in the present,” the king said calmly.