Demon in White (The Sun Eater, #3)

by Christopher Ruocchio

“We don’t start growing up until we leave home.” I found suddenly I could not look at anyone as I added, embarrassedly, “The rest is just prologue.”

When we each arrive in a new place, we must inhabit it for a time before it becomes real, before its passages and turnings become to us as familiar as the lines inside our hands.

So often we don’t see the truth because we won’t look low enough,