Pathfinder's Way (The Broken Lands, #1)

by T.A. White

Sometimes when things got especially bad, laughter was the only way you got through it.

One day she was going to get control of herself and stop doing stupid shit to save ungrateful idiots.

But she knew better than anybody, home wasn’t a place; it’s a state of mind. It’s the people you’re with. And for her, those people were all here.

“Because you have already made your choice whether you’re willing to admit it or not. Because when you were gone I knew fear such as I have not known since I was a boy watching my father die, and my mother take her own life rather than face dishonor, not because I thought you had run to my enemies but because you were out there somewhere on your own, perhaps hurt or scared or in pain, and I wasn’t there to help you. But mostly, because you are mine, and I crave the same commitment from you.”

There are reasons behind emotion. Such is not the case with true detachment.