Book: Torch in the Night

Laia of Serra. A coal that can burn the Empire.

As long as you love, there is always pain.

“Because intelligent plans, unlike insane ones, never work,” she said.

It only takes a split second to derail your whole life. And in order to fix everything, you need to take so many correct steps! And it seems that between one successful attempt and the next there is a whole ocean. But at that moment I decided that I would overcome any distance, over and over again, until I won. I will not give up.

It's not your failures that speak of you, but how you behave after them. Only this shows who you are - a leader or an empty space.

Perhaps, in grief, as in battle: you will sip it with interest and temper. And the next time grief overtakes you, like a squadron of death-bearing swordsmen, you will harden from within, preparing for the agony of a broken heart. When it collapses, it will hurt, but not so crushingly, because there is no longer any weakness left in you, only anger and strength.

Most people can only be a glimpse in the great darkness of time. But you, Helen Aquilla, are not a spark that goes out quickly. You will become a torch in the night if you dare to burn.

If you survive, you will become a force to be reckoned with in this world. But first, you will be destroyed. You will be broken.

You are my temple. You are my shepherd. You are my prayer. You are my liberation.

The family is worth dying and killing for it. Fighting for our loved ones is the only thing that helps us move on when there is nothing else left.

Few people like it if someone sees his suffering, and grief makes him suffer the most.

Ilyaas is the boy you were. Elias is the man you have become.

Children are born to break the hearts of their mothers.

You are always so afraid of the darkness within you! Don't you understand? While you are fighting the darkness, you are in the midst of the light.