" The path she'd chosen had not been kind, and it had irrevocably changed her as a person. But it wasn't the gods, Linn thought, who had gotten her through each grueling, hopeless day of being indentured in a foreign, frozen land. It wasn't the gods who had helped her survive.
All along, it had been her. "

― Amélie Wen Zhao , Crimson Reign (Blood Heir Trilogy, #3)