“I tried to imagine green grass growing over the smoking mounds of ash, and flowers blooming all through the valley, coming out in a blaze as bright as balefire. It seemed impossible, now, but life was inexorable. It would always triumph over death in the end.”
― The Unbound Empire
― The Unbound Empire
“My throat tightened. 'I'm not good at these games. Not like you are, Mamma.'
'Then don't play. Figure out what you are good at, and make that the game.”
― The Tethered Mage
'Then don't play. Figure out what you are good at, and make that the game.”
― The Tethered Mage
“I traded freedom for power, and I could use that power to keep the people I cared about safe. To wish for both freedom and power would be selfish; there was a reason everything came with a cost.”
― The Defiant Heir
― The Defiant Heir
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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