Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

by Rebecca Yarros

Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”

These are the thoughts families keep behind their doors so they can wear their polished, perfect reputations like armor when in public.

Eventually those closest to us become our enemies in some way, even if it’s through well-intentioned love or apathy, or if we live long enough to become their villains.

It hurts to rearrange everything you think you know. Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”

“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”