Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1)

by Ryan Cahill

One should not simply wish to live. They should wish to live in a way that they deemed to be right.

“This will hurt, brother,” Kallinvar said to the man. “But pain is the path to strength.”

the sun will set, and it will rise again, and it will do so the next day and the next. The gods are in charge of such things, but it is by our own will that we pick ourselves up when we fall.

“Rakina may mean ‘one who is broken’, but among the elves, it is a mark of respect. It also means, ‘one who survived’.”