The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound Trilogy Book 1)

by Rochelle Hassan

Aziza loved magic, but she loved it like you’d love a pet boa constrictor: with cautionary measures, a healthy respect for its dangers, and a full awareness of the fact that the thing you loved could turn on you at any moment.

That was how you made a place your home: You put work into it. You carved out a role for yourself. You made yourself belong even if you weren’t sure you did.

he had learned that absence was unmistakable, even if you couldn’t name what was missing. Love was unmistakable. It suffused him, like light. It had changed him. He couldn’t remember being changed. But he had been.

This figure was more forest than girl,

It should’ve been impossible to hurt this much and not bleed.

It seemed as though she would’ve liked to be comforting but didn’t know how to do it, so she was brisk and practical instead.