" Funny thing about having choices taken away from you—it tended to make things all kinds of crystal clear. You either felt relief all the way into your bones because it was the right decision even if you hadn’t made it, or every cell inside you cried out in rebellion and loss and regret because you learned—too late—what it was you really wanted. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)