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. That distinction was the separation between men.

“For tonight, drink heartily, eat well, and warm yourselves by the fire. Take advice from your fathers, better advice from your mothers, and laugh with your siblings. Tomorrow, you enter the forest as boys and return to us as men.”

“Calen, you can’t just bury it deep down and never speak about it. It will eat you from the inside out until there is nothing left of you.”