The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)

by N.K. Jemisin

We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

They would keep what they had stolen, because making them give it back was too messy.