The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, #1)

by Andrea Stewart

If I thought too much on all the suffering, all the people I couldn’t help, I felt like I was drowning in the Endless Sea itself. I couldn’t carry that weight.

“Listening is an art. It’s not so much sometimes in letting the other person speak as in asking them the right questions.”

And I would show him that even broken daughters could wield power.

They know what they don’t want, but they don’t know what they do want. No movement survives without a vision of the future, because without it, there is nothing to strive for.

Dragging myself from bed seemed easier when I was doing it for someone else.