The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)

by Amie Kaufman

try. If only I can make them see that we have to be more than we are—we have to search, and discover, and keep making ourselves better, not just because our engines might need it, but because our souls do.

The Lightbringer cannot be real, they say—for how could a god turn his back on his destiny? I could not help but wonder if the answer might be simple: that the boy-god born to destroy the world was afraid.

Like stars lured down and held spellbound by their reflections in the water, the fireflies sing a song of light and dark.

Lightbringer, the scroll whispers to me. Listen well . . . for this is how you will end the world.