Clare’s Reviews > King of Ashes > Status Update

“We love our parents not because they are perfect but because they persevere despite their imperfections. We all fall short of grace, but the beauty lives in the attempt.”

“Love may not endure, but fear fails when a man’s had enough.”

“They are never going to let this go. They are going to bleed us like vampires until we’re broke. Until we run out of blood.”

“Ancestry stretched marionette strings down through a generation of couplings, of sighs, of long winter days and champagne Saturday nights, to make them move with unpracticed synchronicity.”