What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile #1)

by Isabel Ibañez

Everyone deserved a living wage. No human ought to be treated as if their work didn’t matter, or their choices, or their dreams.

Grief was like a memory keeper. It showed me moments I’d forgotten, and I was grateful, even as my stomach hollowed out. I never wanted to forget them, no matter how painful it was to remember.

“And you shall see in him, the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool,”

“Your curiosity has no sense of decency.”

“The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones,”

“I will not help you destroy your life.”