Hollow Core (School of Swords and Serpents, #1)

by Gage Lee

It’s easy to be honorable and just when you’re on top of the pile with everyone else under your feet. It’s a lot harder when you’re on the bottom of the heap getting stomped.” That

But honor and duty didn’t fill your stomach, and without money or station sometimes the moral lines got a little fuzzy and out of focus.

“When a bunch of people want you to fail, it’s usually because they’re afraid of what will happen if you succeed.”

“It’s impossible for what I’m doing to be impossible, because I am doing it.”