Ember Queen

when the sun is a mere suggestion in the sky

. I don’t think it’s possible, to be ready to charge headfirst into possible—probable—death. I don’t think that’s the kind of thing you can ever prepare yourself for.”

There aren’t many things I’m sure of in this world. I’m not sure what tomorrow will bring, or the day after. I’m not sure if either of us will live long enough to find out. I’m not sure what will happen to Astrea or Kalovaxia or if peace is something we will ever find. But I am sure about him, I am sure about us, I am sure about this.

There is so much I want to say to him, so many words that I know will never be enough to encapsulate how I feel. So I don’t try to tell him at all—I show him

broken things are the most dangerous of all

. “I don’t know how to make it go away.”

“You don’t,” I tell him after a second. “You learn to live with it, and you learn how to let it push you forward. The anger is always going to be there, but you can give it a direction and a purpose and turn it into something good

but some people have a way of forcing their way into your life. When they go, it becomes a void you can’t fill,”