Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

by Laini Taylor

None of us became monks to be nursemaids.” To which the child Lazlo replied, with fire in his soul, “And none of us became children to be orphans.”

And so Grief and Shame abided in adjoining rooms with the door shut between them, holding their pain in their arms instead of each other.

“Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It’s just that when they do them, they call it justice.”