The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

by Evan Winter

no matter the frequency with which she encountered it, the effortless idiocy of men always surprised her.

“Because the limits to which we’ve been yoked were never ours, and the stories we’ve been told about our nature, our insignificance, and our lack, they were never true.”

“The lie isn’t that we can’t be their equals. The lie is that they were ever anything but our equals.”

“Rage is love… twisted in on itself,” he said, using some of the words she’d spoken to him on the night Zuri died. “Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less.”

the difference between the ones who stood and the ones who fell was that the truly triumphant taught themselves to meet all their fights, regardless of circumstance, in spite of the odds, and in defiance of fear.

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.”

Grief, anger, they’ll hold you for a time. They must. But if you let them root and fester, they’ll become a hate that will consume you.”

the only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not.”

“The things worth fighting for die in darkness if we’ll only defend them in the sun.”