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

by Tehlor Kay Mejia

You will find a way to make a life you love.

“It doesn’t matter if I like them or I don’t. If I want this life or I don’t. This is what I have. This is how I survive.”

“So tell me something true,”

She thought of the people shot at the wall, deemed criminals because desperation forced them to cross a border they hadn’t built or consented to. She thought of the children, sent back to starve for being born on the wrong side of that line, or forced—like her—to live with lies and ghosts trailing them all their lives.

How, in the midst of a revolution, could she still change the focus of every cell in Dani’s body with a whisper?

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

“The past may comfort us,” she said to the fire. “But it cannot feed us.”

Their lips met like swords sometimes do, clashing and impatient and bent on destruction, and Dani thought her heart might burst if she didn’t stop, but it would surely burst if she did.