Of Darkness and Light (The Bound and the Broken, #2)

by Ryan Cahill

Cherish the pain. Let it bind to who you are. You will be the better for it.”

Story of my life irl

He was entirely confident he could have read every book on plants in the great library and still never have been able to name half of what the gardens held.

‘Their very existence threatens to undermine The Circle and everything it stands for. To leave them alive is weakness, not mercy.’

“All cycles can be broken, my boy,”

Generational

“But they do not break on their own, not while good people stand by.”

O slap

No matter what happens, you protect them, protect the heart of House Ateres, and together, you will break the chains. Valtara will be free. By blade and by blood.”

and screwing off the lid of the tin. An immediate waft of antiseptic hit his nostrils. Brimlock sap.

“There is nothing but death that will ever take me away again.”

The heart’s capacity for love was the true gauge of one’s soul.

The Shadow is not waiting, and neither can we.”

words. “The sun will set, and it will rise again, and it will do so the next day and the next. The gods are in charge of such things, but it is by our own will that we pick ourselves up when we fall.”

The dragon’s roars bellowed like thunder through the dark,

Fear is human. Embrace fear. Use it.