Chance

“But then I remember I’m not an infant. Hiding under a soft blanket for fear of the dark. Only a coward raises a fist to a child and calls it love. I name no one my Father who never loved me as a son. And I would scorn to lie meek upon the block and smile up at he who lifts the axe and tells me he has a fucking plan”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“It is a fine gift to have others believe in you, sinner. It is a different boon entire to believe in yourself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Memory is an unreliable narrator at best, and at worst, a lying fiend.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“It tastes, Koen thinks, like forever should.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate