Vengeful (Villains, #2)

by V.E. Schwab

Perhaps she was glass. But glass is only brittle until it breaks. Then it’s sharp.

“Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful. And as for family—well, blood is always family, but family doesn’t always have to be blood.”

Eli didn’t know how he was broken, but he wanted to be healed. He wanted to be saved.

You do what you can. You fight, and you win, until you don’t.”

Run, thought Victor, and he could see the response in Eli’s coiled frame. Chase me.

She always knew when he was lying.