Forging Silver into Stars (Forging Silver into Stars #1)

by Brigid Kemmerer

“That is not tricky. Loyalty to your country doesn’t matter if you’re disloyal to whoever is ruling it.”

Maybe I shouldn’t have taught him how to use weapons, because he’s clearly capable of eviscerating a man with nothing more than words.

“Jake wasn’t doing good things,” he says. “But he didn’t think he had any other choice. He was trying to protect his family.”

If your heart tells you someone deserves your attention, listen to it.”

This woman has gray hair in braids that are coiled on top of her head, and one eye is blue while the other is brown.

Taking a choice away from someone else isn’t devotion, and it isn’t loyalty.

A game of make-believe with lethal stakes: disguising control as faithful devotion.

“I’m not a soldier,” I say to him, as if there’s any chance he wasn’t sure. “No one really is until they have to be.”

“Fate has already drawn a path beyond this moment, Jax. Let’s follow it through.”

“Forgive me,” I say tearfully. “I shouldn’t cry.” On the queen of all people. “Oh no,” she says. “You should cry all you want. Big sisters rarely get the chance.”