BOOKYWORLD

“{I want something that is real. And I want life, or death, but not this nothingness between.}”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“That night, I sat in front of the fireplace, looking over my notes from our lessons with my legs crossed in front of me. Max slumped in one of the armchairs, a book in his hands and a pair of reading glasses perched over his nose.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“If you can do it, I can do it.” His hand lifted to brush my cheek, then he said, more softly, “I don’t care what we’re walking into. You’re not going to do it alone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Max’s face hardened. “That man treated you like an animal, and he was just looking at you like you were—” He let out a breath through his teeth. “And you’re telling me that I didn’t play nicely enough?” I wanted to laugh. How could someone be so cynical and yet so naive? “Do you understand how many men have looked at me that way? Like a thing, not a person? I wouldn’t have survived a week in Esmaris’s court if I had—” “But that’s not right.” “Of course it’s not right, but it is the way it is.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds