Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)

by Marie Lu

Look proud, she would say to me as she patted my cheek, until you feel it.

I don’t utter a sound. But a heart can grieve in silence, so I sink to my knees beside Corian’s body and allow the tears to come.

I make a vow to be like him. I’m going to find a way to walk through life with courage seared into my bones.

“Aren’t we all always searching for someone to understand us?

What if there’s no one out there at all? I asked. He shrugged and only said, The world is too big a place for that, don’t you think?

he couldn’t control the future, only what he could do to alter it.

Your family can also be the poison in your life.”

“Ideas are nothing but air,” Adena mutters. “Then we’re truly lost,”

You have spent your entire lives sneering at the ground I walk on. The style of my clothes and the tint of my skin. The food that I eat. The language of my people, the signs I use because I cannot speak aloud. You have wished for the death of my loved ones by barring them from the safety of your doors, even as you take from them what you like—their jewelry, their customs and food, their traditions. You have taken advantage of my silence in every way, robbed me of my dignity and my pride. You have used me for your own gain. Now, in your hour of greatest need, you will use me again. And yet, I will still risk my life to save yours. I swore an oath to this country on the day I donned this coat, to protect you and every other citizen from harm so long as there is breath in my body. While you try to escape through the tunnels, I am going to turn in the direction of danger and head out beyond the wall. I’ve done it my entire life, and I will do it now. One final time.

We ride as a phantom team, accompanied by nothing but the pounding of war hooves.

She is such a good writer

Thousands of years of progress lost, after they made a simple mistake: They couldn’t control what they had built.