A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Cursebreakers, #2)

by Brigid Kemmerer

He stalked across the room like he wanted to wage war, but he kisses me like I’m the most delicate thing in the castle.

“I spent so long waiting to find you that I worried fate might take you away.”

the world is full of men who underestimate women. Men who undermine them. I cannot rule from a place of weakness. I do not have the luxury of mercy and sympathy. Nor will your sister.”

“Do not fault yourself for choices you believed were right in the moment.

“When a man no longer deserves your loyalty, it is not a failing of yours, Grey.”

And underneath it all, so tiny that I almost don’t acknowledge it, a kernel of pride that instead of magic bringing fear and torment, the way Lilith did, or pain and death, the way my sword would, my magic brought healing and trust, and that is not a small thing at all.

“Ah, yes, the most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”

That is what makes you dangerous. Not because you would ride in with a blade and take control, but because you could quietly sit in this chair, in the dark, with your book”—the corner of his mouth turns up—“and you could determine the best way to achieve what needs to be done.”

“Choices are never easy. There are good and bad options, but the most dangerous is to not make any choice at all.”