Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

by Leigh Bardugo

That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible.

“The purest Marxists are always men. Calamity comes too easily to women. Our lives can come apart in a single gesture, a rogue wave. And money? Money is the rock we cling to when the current would seize us.”