A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

by Freya Marske

“You already know I’ll steal for them. I stole opportunity. If the world were different, I wouldn’t have had to, but it’s the way it is, and so I’ve been scared my whole life and angry for even longer. It’s exhausting. You have no bloody idea how exhausting it is. Some people get exhausted out of the anger early, because they need all their energy simply to stay alive.

“You choose your leaders terribly.” “That’s a common human failing, all right,”

There’s only so much fight in a person. If it never lets up, if they can never rest—it gets squeezed out of them, forever.”

The past could turn you into a strip of paper with a single side, so that comfort and vulnerability slid away down invisible channels and couldn’t be grasped. Except, perhaps, if you bent your will towards unlearning your own history. If you let yourself soften and be porous. Even if only like this, in silence, and at an angle.