The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

by Evan Winter

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

Yes, if the measure of a man was height, then Nobles were taller. If the measure of a man was physical strength, then Nobles were stronger. But Tau knew who decided what needed to be measured, and they’d chosen things in which they already had an advantage. They said, “This matters more than that,” making it seem as if their edicts sprang from natural law when they were little more than self-serving choices. They wrote the rules in their favor, succeeded more often than others, and pointed to that as proof of their superiority. It was all a lie.

Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less.”

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