Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

by Rebecca Schaeffer

“Every time someone thinks about me and imagines who I’d be in another life, they take away the choices I’ve made in this life.

Then he went over and picked up the broken statue. “She’s going to pay for that next time. Four dollars plus tax.”

But the thing is, murder will solve this.

It won't but you do you boo

They were using each other to stopgap their own isolation and figure out their messed-up, broken lives. It was pathetic.

“Kovit’s been prejudged.” Adair’s voice was soft. “He’s been found evil. And if you tell someone they’re bad long enough, they’ll believe it. Especially children.”

“So you’re saying you saw that my niece was kidnapped, sold on the black market, and attacked when she got out, and you thought to yourself, I wonder if she’s been the villain this whole time?”

Well. Yes.

if I’m not biologically, fundamentally worse than you, you have to ask questions about yourself and how bad a person you are.”

“I don’t know you at all, Kovit. Just the masks you’ve worn.”

“And you’re far more of a monster than he is.”

Fair.

She’d been a pretty awful guest.

Yeah.