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

by Ryan Cahill

‘we honour the dead not by how we mourn their death, but by how we live on despite it.’”

“Fate is fluid. It changes with every decision that is made. It is utterly out of our hands, and completely within our control at the same time.”

You always fear what you do not understand.

Always remember, even in the shadow of what was lost, we can find light anew.

“There are demons within us all that we must face. They only ever surface when we are at our lowest because they are not strong enough to challenge us at our highest.

A man could endure excruciating pain as long as they held hope in their heart.

there were some people in the world who would walk into your life and just demand your love. Simply by existing, they changed everything.

Beauty faded with age, yielding to the incessant abrasion of time. It was fleeting. The heart’s capacity for love was the true gauge of one’s soul.

“There is not a soul in this world who does not feel the push and pull of pride. Damage it, and you can make an enemy for life. Keep it intact, and you may find allies in the strangest of places.”

“Pain is the path to strength.”

“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.”

You did not have to understand an arrow for it to tear through your flesh.

“It is a hollow victory if you win a war but lose who you are.”

I do not mean you cannot hold fear in your hearts, for courage is not the absence of fear. It is the will to act in spite of fear.”