The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, #1)

by Andrea Stewart

Habits were things done with little reason, over and over, until momentum made them more difficult to stop than to keep going.

When a shark offers up a pearl, be wary of its teeth. My father liked to tell me that when we were sailing, though I found this lesson most often applied on land.

I suppose death, like life, often doesn’t meet expectations.