The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

by Andrea Stewart

“If you know a person is lying, don’t countermand them. They’ll dig in. Just continue on with what you know is the truth.”

When you’re young, you think you can change the world. You think you can bend it to your will. When you’re old,

you learn to change your small corner of it and live with the rest.”

“Does anyone know what is right?”

Despair was a heavy, suffocating companion, hung about shoulders never strong enough to bear its weight.

:being such in appearance

“Laws tell us what we can and cannot do; they do not tell us what we should and should not do.”

“A coward is not a man who feels fear. A coward is one who would volunteer others for the suffering he would not take on himself,”

Time and experience make fools of us all.