The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

by Evan Winter

“If your ideas hold merit, they’ll win out in spite of your person.” “Yes, that’s the lie everyone unaffected by hidden hardships believes.”

“Vizier Nyah, I think the world is too complex for most things to be purely right or wrong. Given that, the way words, actions, or even intent is viewed depends on who is doing the viewing and on who is being viewed.”

It was always easy to find Nobles beautiful. They were properly fed, they dressed in marvels, and they could move through the world with confidence, heads held high, treating the world as if it were fair and decent, because for them it was. Nobles had the better of everything and they wrapped themselves in that betterment, appearing to everyone else as beautiful, right, and good, just like sunlight.

“Lady Gifted, as far as I know, the only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not.”

“Fellate a scorpion’s sting, you wingless kudliwe!”

Lmfaoo that's such a crazy thing to say