A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

by Freya Marske

Edwin had no idea what he ached for, no real sense of the shape of his ideal future. He only knew that if every day he made himself a little bit better—if he worked harder, if he learned more, more than anyone else—he might find it.

You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I’d like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.

Beginnings and endings are powerful. Liminal states. You can create profound change if you slip in through the gaps.”

And admission, even in his own head: I am nothing like you, and yet I feel more myself with you.