The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1)

“It’s a gift if it makes us better. It’s a curse if we let it destroy

“Home is people,” she says to Asael, softly. Asael blinks. “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”

Survival doesn’t mean rightness. I could kill you right now, but that wouldn’t make me a better person for doing so.”

When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt.

You think of a line from stonelore, Structures, verse three. The body fades. A leader who lasts relies on more.