The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)

by S.A. Chakraborty

“Feels like the center of our world should belong to us all.”

You are asking me to take bread out of the mouths of the soldiers who guard your life and bricks from the hospital intended to treat your citizens so an already rich man—a man who twisted our most sacred beliefs—can have his pride soothed?”

“Because your way of handling things is to let people die! To let everyone who is not us spend so much time fighting each other that they can’t oppose you!”