A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)

by Deanna Raybourn

ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. She flies with her own wings.

life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.”

“Because there is no power on earth that could make me abandon our friendship. There is no deed you could confess so dark that it would make me forsake you. You said of us once that we were quicksilver and the rest of the world mud. We are alike, shaped by Nature in the same mold, and whatever that signifies, it means that to spurn each other would be to spit in the face of whatever deity has seen fit to bring us together. We are the same, and to leave you would be to leave myself. Make of that what you will.”