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

by Leigh Bardugo

“Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.

“He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”

“But no matter who or what I was, I would have been yours.”

“I wanted more for you,” he said. “A white veil in your hair. Vows we could keep.”

“She’s worth it. And one day maybe she’ll let me chase her into a chapel.”