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

by Tehlor Kay Mejia

The powerful used him as proof that they were chosen, but the only things people worshipped on the inner island were money and power.

Faith, it so often seemed, was for the lacking.

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

closeness led to trust, and trust could be broken.

This world has made it so you can never have a friend, Dani; doesn’t that bother you? Don’t you hate them for it?”

“Women, I’ll never understand them.” With only his Primera and Segunda present, there was no one in the room to laugh at his joke.

When has there ever been true protest without injustice?

Guilt they’d never admit to their neighbors, but that burrowed into the secret places.

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

“But that love made their world shrink.

But that's what parents do huhuhu

The cause Dani had believed in, had sacrificed everything for, had been willing to put a bullet in her head without a second’s hesitation.