Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

by Amélie Wen Zhao

how did you destroy a people? You began by cutting off their roots.

Grief is for the survivors, and I think that, rather than living my life in pain, I would live it in laughter and love. To the fullest.

surviving is the only way forward. Living on to see another day means another chance to fight back—and another chance to win.”

So long as we live on, he’d said, we carry inside us all that they have destroyed. And that is our triumph; that is our rebellion.

So long as there was war, there was sacrifice. So long as there was power, there was bloodshed. So long as there was life, there was hope.