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.

Dann

I feel like he's going to die first, then Rist

“I’m not going back to sleep.”

I'm sure someone is going to die before this Proving is over

“Rist!”

Oh Rist might die first

The massive half-moon blade glittered in the pale moonlight, a mix of beauty and misery forged in steel.

What did I do?

Guess he's going to live

A woman can call another woman beautiful, but you can never agree.

To the young men who have passed through The Proving, and to the young women who have nothing to prove.”

Dann Pimm

Nice that he can afford extra letters in his name. although it sounds like dampen if I read it quickly

coruscated

new word for me

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

“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.”

Faenir

I hope he sees the dog again

“You’ll answer, eventually. I know you will. I’m like a weed – I’ll grow on you.”

his stomach. A polished steel spear tip jutted out from just below his belly button, dripping thick red blood onto the dry dirt below. “Ella?”

Rip

“Faenir!”

the best boy

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

“That’s where prophecies belong, Calen. In stories and fairy tales. Prophecies and fate are words that are used by kings and queens to send young men and women to their death with smiles on their faces, dreaming of becoming heroes.

Fate is fluid. Your destiny is in your own hands

If death could be beautiful, this was as close as it could come.

Death could not be beautiful, but sometimes, it was necessary.