Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

by Laini Taylor

“Life won’t just happen to you, boy,” he said. “You have to happen to it.

He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.