Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

by Rebecca Yarros

Dragons don’t bond fragile women. They incinerate them.

Violet deals with more pain before lunch than you do in an entire week. If any of my children is capable of surviving the Riders Quadrant, it’s her.”

In the Riders Quadrant, you either graduate or die, and you know that. Let me save you.”

All are deadly.

It’s why they choose carefully, so they’re not humiliated by picking a coward, not that a dragon would ever admit to making a mistake.

I will not die today. —Violet Sorrengail’s personal addendum to the Book of Brennan

“I fucking hate you.” The words are past my lips before I can shut my mouth. “That doesn’t make you special.”

Beautiful. Fucking. Asshole.

“You’re supposed to focus on the things that can kill you so you find ways to not die.”