My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Stars
Quotes to Remember:
Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.
Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.
Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.
There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still.
Fear is a phoenix.
Beware of power. There is no amount of it that can make them love you.
After all this time, she still had not found an end to her grief. It was a dark well, an echoing place into which she’d once cast a stone, sure that it would strike bottom and she would stop hurting. Instead, it just kept falling.
Fears are like weeds. They grow wild if left unattended.
If we don't dream, who will?
Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart.
Progress is a river. It cannot be called back once it leaps its banks.
You've spent your life only choosing the paths at which you knew you could excel. It's made you lazy.
Publisher's Description:
Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.
Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.
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