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

When you blend something so completely, it is impossible for it to return to what it once was.

“Fate,” Farda said as he rested the coin on his thumb and index finger. “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.”

“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. Now,

“Besides, there is nothing more important in the darkness than a ray of light.”

“There will never be a point where you stop learning, young apprentice. That is a simple truth of life.”

This is the way it has always been, for in life the most difficult challenges are the ones which you do not expect.

He had felt that pain before. There was no other thing in the world that compared to it. To lose the other half of you was to have the skin peeled from your living bones, to have your heart pulled from your chest and your eyes burned out.

It is the way of things. We are born, we live, and we die. Those three things cannot be changed. The only thing within our control is what we choose to do with the short time we have – the things we fight for, the people we love, the things we hold dear. Good men stand even when it is against all odds. They were, each of them, good men.”

Calen sighed, feeling the frustration swell within him. “That doesn’t make it any easier.” “It wasn’t meant to,” Tarmon said, shrugging slightly. “Things that matter are rarely easy.”

People tended to fear what they didn’t understand, and fear was a good friend of hate.

’You’re a strange boy, Dann. You’re my boy, but you’re still strange.’”

‘The best laid plans of mice and men, my boy. They go wrong more often than not.’

′When everything around you gets to be too much, focus on one thing and only one thing. Give your mind a task.′

“There is no sense in worrying about what we can’t control,”

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.”