The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)

by N.K. Jemisin

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both—taken and taken and taken, until there’s nothing left but hope, and you’ve given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.

Stone lasts, unchanging. Never alter what is written in stone.