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

by Andrea Stewart

Some faces were worn a certain way from one too many smug expressions, their assedness carved into the lines around mouth and eyes.

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.”

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,