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

by Andrea Stewart

One more life saved. It was a pittance, unutterably small against the scale of the lives lost. But it was there. And one life certainly made a difference to the one living it.

Reading—” “—without true understanding is only wading in the shallows without a care for the monsters that lurk beneath,”

“Listening is an art. It’s not so much sometimes in letting the other person speak as in asking them the right questions.”

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