Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1) (2017)

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• “Possibilities that lay in the past were illusions, closed doors, as meaningless as unfulfilled intentions.” - Kaul Shaelinsan

• Mr. Une wore the expression of someone who's nearly been hit by a bus only to have it swerve out of the way and drop a suitcase of money at his feet.

• He'd enjoyed women and experienced warm, even tender, feelings for them. But that was nothing compared to what he felt for Wen. The desire to make her happy was like a physical ache. The thought of anyone harming her or taking her from him filled him with feverish rage. She could ask anything of him and he would do it. True love, Hilo mused, was sensual and euphoric, but also painful and tyrannical, demanding obedience.

• The return energy rush from destroying a man as powerful as Gont Asch was indescribable. The light and heat of a thousand stars erupted in Anden's skull. His head rocked back, and he screamed from the very pit of his soul in a terror of agony and ecstasy.