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

by Ryan Cahill

told him that 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.

“There is no need to thank me, Calen. You have filled me with more pride than I ever thought possible. The man you have become is thanks enough.”

Many of our closest friends and family are now part of the earth once more. As we were, so we will always be.”

You are our family. Maybe not by blood, but water becomes just as thick as blood if you go through enough shit together.

“The day we stop learning is the day we will be consumed by what we do not know.

there are five elves who pledged an oath to protect me, without even knowing who I truly was. I want to become a man they are proud to protect. I want their oath to mean something.

Fate is fluid. Your destiny is in your own hands – nobody else’s.