Beth

“Stop thinking like a victim. We always have more power than we think. Now, use yours.”
― Briar Boleyn, The Bond that Burns

“She was so young but older than her years. She’d learned lessons she shouldn’t have had to yet. To hide. To pretend. To lie. Those were lessons for adults, not children.”
― Devney Perry, Shield of Sparrows

“My only answer was silence. There was nothing to say. I’d become molten iron, hit so many times by everything that had happened since the king had come to Aisling Cathedral that I no longer recognized myself. The Ardent Oarsman’s bite had taken my faith, my obedience, clean out of me, and for the first time in my life, I felt rage to be revered. Venomous vitriol that the story of the Omens, of Aisling—of me—was a lie. Nothing felt holy anymore, except maybe the dead.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“I’ll see you wherever our love guides us in the afterworld, brother.”
― Caroline Peckham, Hollow