Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)

by Leigh Bardugo

“Boy, go fetch me something sweet.”

“Know that I loved you,” she said to the Darkling. “Know that it was not enough.”

I wanted to turn my pain into anger

“We all die,” he said as he jogged off to retrieve his kill. “Not everyone dies for a reason.”

“You will bear it,” he said. “Or all of these deaths, all we’ve given up, will be for nothing.”

He was ancient, I knew that. But in this moment he was just a boy—brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.

“Don’t let me be alone,”