Harley Merlin and the First Ritual (Harley Merlin, #4)

by Bella Forrest

Life wasn’t a fairytale. Life was tough and turbulent, and if you could come out of it all with a smile on your face and your heart beating as fierce as ever, then maybe that was the ultimate triumph over adversity.

herself: ‘I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free.’

I’m not saying it’s an excuse, but one of my coaches used to have a saying, that ‘hurt people hurt people.’ I guess that kind of stuck with me.”