We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

by Tehlor Kay Mejia

If we’re not all free, none of us are free.

She couldn’t help it; she had expected more. Wanted more, even. But this was just intimidation. Manipulation. The same kind perpetrated by all boys who thought they were stronger than girls.

In a battle between two men trying to control her, she’d chosen herself.

“The government claims the wall exists to keep you safe from the threat beyond it, but ask yourselves: When has there ever been true protest without injustice? Who really cast the first stone? Who is attacking, and who is bleeding?”

This was politics. This was humanity, and the refusal to recognize it.

Alone, but alive. Broken, but free.