" This is the truth of him, I thought as I squinted in the dazzling light, Like calls to like. This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)