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.”

“So that’s why you hired me: to keep you out of garbage heaps,” he said, a hint of amusement in his voice. “Everyone speaks of assassins and disgruntled governors, and no one speaks of the dangers of refuse piles.”

“Is this just the way young people are? I don’t pity her. I see someone who is sad and I want her to be less sad. What’s so wrong about that?”

“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,”