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For this week? I want you to learn how to read. -- Sarah J. Maas
I did not mind stepping out of the shadows, did not mind even being in the shadows to begin with, so long as he was with me. My friend through so many dangers - who had fought for me when no one else would, even myself. -- Sarah J. Maas
He'd devoured the goat in two bites, then gone back to enjoying the wildflowers. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'd forgotten that human minds are easy to shatter as eggshells," Rhysand said, and ran a finger across the base of my throat. I shuddered, my eyes burning. "Look at how delighful she is - look how she's trying not to cry out in terror. It would be quick, I promise. -- Sarah J. Maas
After another moment of quietness, he asked, "Why did you do it?"
Arobynn's attention drifted back to the wagon, already a small dot in the rolling foothills above Rifthold. "Because I don't like sharing my belongings," was his only response. -- Sarah J. Maas
Farran studied his new ally, his gaze glittering. "You have no idea." After another moment, he asked, "Why did you do it?"
Arobynn's attention drifted back to the wagon, already a small dot in the rolling foothills above Rifthold. "Because I don't like sharing my belongings. -- Sarah J. Maas
He stalked closer, his movements feline, those violet eyes turning subdued-lethal. "You're welcome, you know."
"For saving you when asked." I stiffened. " I didn't ask for anything. -- Sarah J. Maas
I found him carefully studying me, his lips in a thin line. "Has anyone ever taken care of you?" he asked quietly.
"No." I'd long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it. -- Sarah J. Maas
His throat bobbled. His kiss that time was deep and thorough, unhurried and intent.
I let the dawn creep inside me, let it grow with each movement of his lips and brush of his tongue against mine. Tears pricked beneath my closed eyes.
It was the happiest moment of my life. -- Sarah J. Maas
The wind in the grasses died; the campfire far beyond their tent flickered, the people around it huddling closer together as the nighttime insects went silent and the small, furred creatures of the plains scampered into their burrows. Marion either didn't notice the surge of his dark power, -- Sarah J. Maas
I couldn't get out; I couldn't get out; I couldn't get out. -- Sarah J. Maas
The captain said I could stay here for a while. Sorry for trying to kill you this winter. I was the one with the twin swords. Nothing personal. - Ren -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin Galathynius had raised an army not just to challenge Morath, but to rattle the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
Manon gazed westward across the mountains. Hope, Elide had said - hope for a better future. For a home. Not obedience, brutality, discipline. But hope. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was going to eat him alive. -- Sarah J. Maas
What would our enemies say if they knew we'd all been petrified of a girl? -- Sarah J. Maas
Of course I like luxury - you think I don't love these gowns and jewels? But in the end ... they're replaceable. I've come to value the people in my life more. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin grinned right back at him, flicking her wrists and sending the blades shooting out of her suit. "Hello, gorgeous." Then she was upon them, slicing and twirling and ducking. -- Sarah J. Maas
Archer let out a breath, and she turned to find him grinning, slowly shaking his head.
"I think 'stunning,' 'beautiful,' and 'dazzling' are the words you're looking for. -- Sarah J. Maas
Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well. -- Sarah J. Maas
With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win. -- Sarah J. Maas
Can I be honest with you?" Chaol leaned closer, and Celaena leaned to meet him as he whispered: "You sound like a raving lunatic. -- Sarah J. Maas
How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond.
"How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
"You were asleep, too?"
"Until you began drooling on my shoulder. -- Sarah J. Maas
To four years until freedom," she said lifting her glass.
He raised his in salute. "To you, Celaena."
Their eyes met, and Chaol didn't hide his smile as she grinned at him. Perhaps four years with her might not be enough. -- Sarah J. Maas
Hush. Your hair was so pretty. I was hoping you'd let me braid it one day. I suppose I'll have to buy a pony instead. -- Sarah J. Maas
One life may change the world. -- Sarah J. Maas
'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?' -- Sarah J. Maas
The mix of awe and anger and the realisation that the world was large, and beautiful, and sometimes so overwhelming in its wonder that it was impossible to drink it all down at once -- Sarah J. Maas
I supposed that with her stunning beauty, she needed no ornamentation. It would have been like putting jewelry on a lion. -- Sarah J. Maas
Maybe you should...go."
"Why? You seemed so insistent that I train you."
"I can't concentrate with you around," I admitted "And go... far. I can feel you from a room away."
A suggestive curve shaped his lips. -- Sarah J. Maas
Now she had no choice about what she had to do. What she would do to protect Dorian. It was what she'd realized last night: she did have someone left - one friend. And there was nothing she wouldn't do to keep him safe. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was the least she could do. For Nehemia - for. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she'd carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was. -- Sarah J. Maas
As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Alone with Rolfe, Celaena raised her sword. "Celaena Sardothien, at your service."
The pirate was still staring at her, his face pale with rage. "How dare you deceive me?" She sketched a bow.
"I did nothing of the sort. I told you I was beautiful. -- Sarah J. Maas
She dared a look at Rowan, whose face remained carefully blank, but saw the words there anyway. You wicked, clever fox. And here you were, thinking the red hair was just for vanity. I shall never doubt again. -- Sarah J. Maas
What is it like? Manon asked quietly. 'To love.' 'It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me.'-Asterin/Manon -- Sarah J. Maas
I'll come back," she said quietly. "I'll come back for you." And he knew that there was more that she wasn't saying, some bigger meaning behind those words.
But Dorian still believed her. -- Sarah J. Maas
But she was her own champion now. And she would not add another name of her beloved dead to her flesh. -- Sarah J. Maas
I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. "Always. -- Sarah J. Maas
Today was not a day for the sounds of life. Today was for the hollow wind rustling branches, for the rushing of a half-frozen river, for the crunch of snow under her boots. -- Sarah J. Maas
With the growing corruption of Adarlan and the king's campaign to hunt them down and execute them, the faeries and Fae fled, seeking shelter in the wild, untouched places of the world. -- Sarah J. Maas
Petrah held up a hand. "I am not finished, Iskra Yellowlegs. -- Sarah J. Maas
He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, "I see you. I see every part of you. And I am not afraid."
I will not be afraid.
A line in the burning brightness.
My name is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius . . .
And I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
It took me a long while to realize that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me from shattering completely. -- Sarah J. Maas
It didn't excuse what he'd done. Even if he'd ... saved me-I choked on the word-from having to refuse Tamlin. Having to explain. -- Sarah J. Maas
I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am. -- Sarah J. Maas
The best lies were always mixed with truth. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin had known, though. That he was her mate. And she had not pushed it, or demanded he face it, because she loved him, and he knew she'd rather carve out her own heart than cause him pain or distress. His Fireheart. His equal, his friend, his lover. His wife. His mate. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. -- Sarah J. Maas
You dare glamour me? he growled, his violet eyes burning as they bore into my own. Lucien just pressed me harder into the wall. -- Sarah J. Maas
Manon told herself it was for an alliance. Told herself it was for show.
But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying wyvern's eyes as she unbuckled her harness, stood from the saddle, and leapt off Abraxos. -- Sarah J. Maas
Maybe this city did deserve Aelin Galathynius's flames. Maybe Chaol deserved to burn, too. -- Sarah J. Maas
You make me want to live, Rowan.
He wondered if Elide Lochan had somehow made Lorcan want to do the same. -- Sarah J. Maas
He took a step back, his wings beating the air like mighty drums. As long as the people who matter most know the truth, I don't care about the rest. Get some sleep. -- Sarah J. Maas
'Throne of Glass' readers tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcoming 'TOG' readers are to new fans. -- Sarah J. Maas
Sam smiled, his brown eyes turning golden in the dawn. It was such a Sam look, the twinkle of mischief, the hint of exasperation, the kindness that would always, always make him a better person than she was. -- Sarah J. Maas
When you give your master his letter, also give him this. And tell him that in the Red Desert, we do not abuse our disciples. -- Sarah J. Maas
He would see that world reborn, even if it took his last breath. Even if he had no name now, no position or title save Oath-Breaker, Traitor, Liar. -- Sarah J. Maas
Everything- everything was for Dorian, for his friend. For himself, he had nothing left to lose. He was nothing more than a nameless oath-breaker, a liar, a traitor. -- Sarah J. Maas
He found her beautiful, if a bit strange and sour. It was something in the way that her eyes sparked when she looked at something lovely in the landscape. He couldn't understand it. -- Sarah J. Maas
This wasn't my plan." "I know," Dorian said with a half smile. "That's why you don't like it." Manon -- Sarah J. Maas
As for Celaena," he said again, "you do not have the right to wish she were not what she is. The only thing you have a right to do is decide whether you are her enemy or her friend. -- Sarah J. Maas
Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. "You left me," she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up again around her, but she whispered, "I have no one left. No one. -- Sarah J. Maas
"As you wish."
"But I'd like to remain your friend."
He put his hands in his pockets. "Always. -- Sarah J. Maas
Amber eyes slid to me. To my crown. Then Rhys's. "An emissary wears a golden crown. Is that a tradition in Prythian?"
"No," Rhysand said smoothly, "but she certainly looks good enough in one that can't resist. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had awoken this morning and slipped the amethyst ring off her finger. It had felt liked a blessed release, a final shadow lifted from her heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'd always thought death would be some sort of peaceful homecoming - a sweet, sad lullaby to usher me into whatever waited afterward. -- Sarah J. Maas
She said softly, "You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live."
He didn't have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss.
So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night. -- Sarah J. Maas
Nor had she missed when they zigzagged between levels, even though the building was a standard grid of hallways and stairwells. As if she'd lose her bearings that easily.
She might have been insulted if he wasn't trying so hard. -- Sarah J. Maas
I wished my human heart had been changed with the rest of me, made into immortal marble. Instead of the shredded bit of blackness that it now was, leaking its ichor into me. Tamlin -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face.
"I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her. -- Sarah J. Maas
The gods had vanished, her mother had once claimed. But had they? Had it been some god who had visited tonight, clothed in the skin of a battered young woman? -- Sarah J. Maas
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat. -- Sarah J. Maas
I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time. That I did not have time with you, Nesta. I will find you in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. I promise. -- Sarah J. Maas
Honestly, she sometimes wondered if there was something a bit wrong with her for being able to cry so easily. -- Sarah J. Maas
You deserve to be happy, he said. And meant it. She deserved the joy he so often glimpsed on her face when Rowan was near - deserved the wicked laughter she shared with Aedion, the comfort and teasing with Lysandra. She deserved happiness, perhaps more than anyone. -- Sarah J. Maas
This war," she said quietly, "is but the second movement in a game that has been played since those ancient days across the sea. -- Sarah J. Maas
I didn't think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that's to come
We'll face it together. To whatever end. -- Sarah J. Maas
My palms began sweating as I took in the enormous, opulent study. Tomes lined each wall like the soldiers of a silent army, and couches, desks, and rich rugs were scattered throughout the room. -- Sarah J. Maas
The three others whirled for Rowan, and there was nothing he could do to get to that fuse.
To save the queen who held his heart in her scarred hands. -- Sarah J. Maas
Nervous?" he asked, his voice barely audible above the steady slice of his oars through the calm bay.
"No," she lied.
"Me too. -- Sarah J. Maas
The straw-coated floor crunched beneath her boots, a cool breeze sweeping in from where the roof had been ripped half off thanks to Sorrel's bull. To keep the wyverns from feeling less caged - and so Abraxos could watch the stars, as he liked to do. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan waited, knowing she was gathering the words, hating the pain and sorrow and guilt on every line of her body. He'd sell his soul to the dark god to never have her look like that again. -- Sarah J. Maas
Unmade and Made; Made and Unmade - that is the cycle. Like calls to like. I -- Sarah J. Maas
The prince's eyes shone with amusement at her brashness but lingered a bit too long on her body. -- Sarah J. Maas
I don't think I'll ever stop being grateful to my readers for everything they've done for me. -- Sarah J. Maas
A cluster of giggling women sat nearby, tittering about how the Crown Prince was gone on holiday to the Sorian coast, and how they wished they could join the prince and his dashing friends, and on and on until Celaena contemplated chucking her spoon at them. -- Sarah J. Maas
A snap of Rhys's fingers, and my nightclothes - and some flimsy underthings - appeared on the bed. "I couldn't decide which scrap of lace I wanted you to wear, so I brought you a few to choose from."
"Pig," I barked -- Sarah J. Maas
You will make mistakes. You will make decisions, and sometimes you will regret those choices. Sometimes there won't be a right choice, just the best of several bad options. I don't need to tell you that you can do this-you know you can. -- Sarah J. Maas
Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one's precise location in relation to others on the earth. -- Sarah J. Maas
I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons ... I was always drawn to those types of stories. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena." He stopped a few feet from the guards. His eyes were rich, molten brown. "Yes?" Her heartbeat steadied. "You look rather pretty today," was all he said before the doors opened and they walked forward. -- Sarah J. Maas
He whispered her name, her true name, and she screamed as he - Celaena awoke with a gasp, clutching the Eye of Elena. -- Sarah J. Maas
What if you could stand against us - hold your own, a High Lady?" "There are no High Ladies." His brows furrowed, but he shook his head. "We'll talk about that later, too. But yes, Feyre - there can be High Ladies. -- Sarah J. Maas
They say you came back different. Came back wrong." A crow's laugh. "I never bother to tell them I think you came back right. Came back right at last." A -- Sarah J. Maas
One day. I am going to marry you. I'll be generous and let you pick when, even if it's ten years from now. Or twenty. But one day, you are going to be my wife. -- Sarah J. Maas
A starry, unclouded night sky, peaceful and glittering and endless. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan just asked, "Did you have a favorite form?"
Lysandra's grin was nothing short of wicked. "I liked anything with claws and big, big fangs. -- Sarah J. Maas
We'd better eat before we raise hell. -- Sarah J. Maas
Has anyone ever taught you humility?"
"You didn't learn it, so why should I? -- Sarah J. Maas
You do not get to pick and choose which parts of her to love, Dorian had once said to him. He'd been right. So painfully right. Nesryn -- Sarah J. Maas
The snow fell and fell, dancing and curling like sparkling spindrifts, the white fresh and clean against the brown and gray of the world. And despite myself, despite my numb limbs, I quieted that relentless, vicious part of my mind to take in the snow-veiled woods. Once -- Sarah J. Maas
He brushed his lips against hers. "I love you," he breathed against her mouth. "And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever." Celaena -- Sarah J. Maas
She was drunk, and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself. -- Sarah J. Maas
He'd never realized how precious the calm moments were. -- Sarah J. Maas
...there was not enough time in life to waste on hatred. On feeling it and putting it into the world -- Sarah J. Maas
I look ridiculous! These pants are absurd, and this shirt is awful."
"Stop whining. No one gives a damn about your clothes. -- Sarah J. Maas
Should I thank you for putting on pants?" Lorcan said, his voice no more than a midnight wind.
"I didn't want you to feel inadequate," Rowan replied, leaning against the roof door. -- Sarah J. Maas
Who said anything about shame?" She gestured down to her naked body, even though it was covered by the blanket. "Honestly, I'm surprised you're not strutting about, boasting to everyone. I certainly would be if I'd tumbled me.
"Does your love for yourself know no bounds?"
"Absolutely none. -- Sarah J. Maas
But they wove a tapestry of dreams, all begging for one thing... a better world. -- Sarah J. Maas
She hoped it would happen too quickly for her to recognize just how she was dying, to know what part of her broke first. -- Sarah J. Maas
The night she'd been captured, she'd also snapped, and come SO CLOSE to killing the person she most wanted to destroy before someone knocked her out and she awoke in a rotting dungeon. She smiled bitterly as she opened her eyes. It was always the same story, the same loss. -- Sarah J. Maas
We need to talk."
"Good talk or bad talk?"
"The kind that will make me glad you don't have access to your power so you don't spew flames everywhere. -- Sarah J. Maas
For whatever it's worth, all of this just proves that she doesn't deserve you. I think you know that, too. -- Sarah J. Maas
The creature took Aelin's face in its hands, and her sword thudded to the ground, forgotten.
Rowan was screaming as the creature pulled her into its arms. As she stopped fighting. As her flames winked out and darkness swallowed her whole. -- Sarah J. Maas
Wincing, Celaena slumped next to Rowan on the bench, and swore viciously at the pain in her leg, her face, her arms. Swore at the pain in the ass sitting right next to her. -- Sarah J. Maas
You could rattle the stars,
that's what scares you the most -- Sarah J. Maas
Why," he asked. "Why did you save her?"
She dragged a hand through her hair. [ ... ]
"Because that golden-haired witch, Asterin ... ," Aelin said. "She screamed Manon's name the way I screamed yours. -- Sarah J. Maas
I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had lied to him. She had wanted to save lives, yes. But she had gone out there with no intention of saving her own. -- Sarah J. Maas
These days, I am very glad to be a mortal, and to only have to endure this life once. These days, I don't envy you at all."
"And before?"
It was her turn to stare toward the horizon. "I used to wish I had a chance to see it all- and hated that I never would. -- Sarah J. Maas
The girl who'd taken on a Pirate Lord and his entire island, the girl who'd stolen Asterion horses and raced along the beach in the Red Desert, the girl who'd sat on her own rooftop, watching the sun rise over Avery, the girl who'd felt alive with possibility ... that girl was gone. -- Sarah J. Maas
Some animalistic, eerie courtier. Who had caused her amulet to glow. -- Sarah J. Maas
When you lick me," he said roughly, "I want to be alone - far away from everyone. Because when you lick me, Feyre," he said, pressing nipping kisses to my jaw, my neck, "I'm going to let myself roar loud enough to bring down a mountain. -- Sarah J. Maas
Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me -- Sarah J. Maas
Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm thinking that I must have been a fool in love to allow myself to be shown so little of the Spring Court. I'm thinking there's a great deal of that territory I was never allowed to see or hear about and maybe I would have lived in ignorance forever like some pet. -- Sarah J. Maas
But Aelin suddenly said, "Thank you."
Nesryn paused, somehow knowing the queen had spoken to her.
Aelin put a hand on her heart. "For all that you're risking - thank you."
Nesryn's eyes flickered as she said, "Long live the queen. -- Sarah J. Maas
I love you,' he whispered, and kissed my brow. 'Thorns and all. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm not married," he said softly, "because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Yulemas Ball. Maybe earlier. Maybe even Samhuinn, when I brought you this ring. But Yulemas was the first time I realized I didn't like the idea of you with - with someone else. -- Sarah J. Maas
Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends. -- Sarah J. Maas
Remove them." Stuck in masks - for nearly fifty years. I would have gone mad, would have peeled my skin off my face. "You didn't have a mask as a beast - and neither did your friend." "The blight is cruel like that." Either live as a beast, or live with the mask. "What - what sort of sickness is it? -- Sarah J. Maas
What's this?" Amarantha said, her voice lilting despite the adder's smile she gave me ...
"Just a human thing I found downstairs," the Attor hissed, and a forked tongue darted out between his razor-sharp teeth. -- Sarah J. Maas
Keelie was still breathing, Manon realized as they neared, the wind tearing at her face and clothes. Keelie was still breathing, and fighting like hell to keep steady. Not to survive. Keelie knew she would be dead any moment. She was fighting for the witch on her back. -- Sarah J. Maas
Holy gods. He'd frozen the whole damn lake. He was THAT powerful? -- Sarah J. Maas
He himself was a beautiful weapon, forged by centuries of ruthless training and warring. -- Sarah J. Maas
Their hands clasped between them, he whispered into her ear, I claim you, too, Aelin Galathynius. -- Sarah J. Maas
And I said, "You love me?" Rhys nodded. And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he'd done for me. For what I felt for him. I set the bowl down before him. "Then eat. -- Sarah J. Maas
There was a thing waiting in the darkness.
It was ancient, and cruel, and paced in the shadows ... -- Sarah J. Maas
I've never taken a woman on a beach," - Rowan Whitethorn -- Sarah J. Maas
And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine. -- Sarah J. Maas
...her dearest friends are characters in books. -- Sarah J. Maas
James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a 'Throne of Glass' soundtrack. -- Sarah J. Maas
Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste. -- Sarah J. Maas
Power called to power among the Fae. Perhaps Aelin Galathynius was unlucky the cadre had been drawn to Maeve's power long before she was born, had chained themselves to her instead. Perhaps they were the unlucky ones, for not holding out for something better. -- Sarah J. Maas
Some would say it's unwise to insult a Fae in his home," Tamlin ground out. "Some would say you should be grateful for me finding you before another one of my kind came to claim the debt, for sparing your life and then offering you the chance to live in comfort. -- Sarah J. Maas
A minute of pleasant conversation, and then the territorial Fae bullshit comes raging out -- Sarah J. Maas
Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn. -- Sarah J. Maas
This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie. He was one of the High Fae, one of their ruling nobility: beautiful, lethal, and merciless. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fae warriors: invaluable in a fight - and raging pains in her ass at all other times. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan was the most powerful full-blooded Fae male alive. And his scent was all over her. Yet she had no gods-damned idea. -- Sarah J. Maas
Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because she wasn't human, Chaol realized, gaping at her from where he still crouched over Fleetfoot.
No - she wasn't human at all.
Celaena was Fae. -- Sarah J. Maas
What terrified him even more was that he trusted her. And he didn't know what that said about himself. -- Sarah J. Maas
I ran again, losing myself amongst my water-wolves. Some of the soldiers were taking to the sky, flapping upward, backtracking. So my wolves grew wings, and talons, and became falcons and hawks and eagles. They -- Sarah J. Maas
Alone in my bedroom, I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd truly laughed. -- Sarah J. Maas
That sounds a lot like, ' I have more secrets that I'm going to spring on you whenever I feel like stopping your heart dead in your chest. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was foolish to even start down this road, when every other man she'd let in had left some wound, in one way or another, accidentally or not. -- Sarah J. Maas
Can I see it?"
She knew what he meant, and had held up her hands before her.
Ribbons and plumes and flowers of red and gold fire danced through his room, bright and glorious and elegant.
Chaol's eyes had been lined with silver when the flames winked out. "it's lovely," he said at last. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm saying that in four years, I'm going to be free, and I've never been free in my entire life." Her smile grew. "And I want to know what that feels like. -- Sarah J. Maas
Would this be her life, then? Wretched people, always looking out for themselves, every kindness coming at a cost? Would her own queen at least gaze at her with warmth in her eyes? Would Aelin even remember her? -- Sarah J. Maas
But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her new enemy, but perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.
You are too good of a fighter to kill, but if i die here because of you, ill beat the shit out of you in hell -- Sarah J. Maas
You can't reason against it. Even if it wasn't in our culture, there would still be an instinct to protest the defenseless, regardless of whether they're female or male, young or old. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm thinking it would be very easy to love you. And easier to call you my friend. -- Sarah J. Maas
It is a new world, and we must decide how we are to end this old one and begin it anew. -- Sarah J. Maas
We are the masters of our own fates - we decide how we go forward. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am yours, and you are mine. -- Sarah J. Maas
It had been one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and I'd swallowed half the pond in the process, but I'd gotten the gist of it, managed to conquer my blind panic and terror and trust myself. -- Sarah J. Maas
Remember who you are. Every step of the way down, and every step of the way back. Remember who you are. And that you're mine. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin was insane, Dorian realized. Brilliant and wicked, but insane. -- Sarah J. Maas
Our tongues danced - not a waltz or a minuet, but a war dance, a death dance of bone drums and screaming fiddles. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin Galathynius smiled at her, hand still outreached. "Get up." the princess said.
Celaena reached across the earth between them and brushed her fingers against Aelin's.
And arose. -- Sarah J. Maas
How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy. -- Sarah J. Maas
His eyes - those silver eyes that would probably haunt her for the rest of her life - were bright.
"No matter what I have done, I really do love you, Celaena."
The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd never said that word to her before. Ever.
A long silence fell between them. -- Sarah J. Maas
Immortality is not as much of a gift as mortals would believe. It can breed monsters that even you would be sick to learn about. Imagine the sadists you've encountered - and then imagine them with millennia to hone their craft and warped desires. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed. -- Sarah J. Maas
I said, "Don't you have other things to deal with?"
"Of course I do," he said, shrugging. "I have so many things to deal with that I'm sometimes tempted to unleash my power across the world and wipe the board clean. Just to buy me some damned peace. -- Sarah J. Maas
Maybe I'm just unable to resist how handsome he is," she said. Sam went rigid.
"He's twelve years older than you."
"So?" He didn't think he was serious, did he? -- Sarah J. Maas
You drove me mad, -- Sarah J. Maas
She was fury, she was wrath, she was vengeance. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was never afraid of the consequences of being with you. Even if every assassin in the world hunts us ... It's worth it. You are worth it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Everything I love has always had a tendency to be taken away from me -- Sarah J. Maas
Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party for you. And I care enough that I'd attend a thousand more like it so I can spend a few hours with you when you aren't looking at me like I'm not worth the dirt beneath your shoes. -- Sarah J. Maas
I heard what you told him," he said. "That you thought it would be easy to fall in love with him. You meant it, too." "So?" It was the only thing I could think of to say. "I was jealous - of that. That I'm not ... that sort of person. -- Sarah J. Maas
His clothes - all black, all finely made - were cut close enough to his body that I could see how magnificent he was. As if he'd been molded from the night itself. -- Sarah J. Maas
One by one, like shadows emerging from the mist, they appeared. The faces of the people she had loved with her heart of wildfire. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm sorry,' I said.
'Sorry? SORRY?' She splayed her arms. Bits of mud flew off.
I didn't know what to do with my own-- how to even look her in the eye. I'd seen her mad before, but never...never at me. I'd never had a friend to quarrel with-- who cared enough. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I wouldn't sit in my room, couldn't allow myself to mourn and mope and weep and sleep. So I would venture out, even if it was an agony ... -- Sarah J. Maas
I blinked at my mate. Then grinned, not bothering to hide the savagery within it. "Hybern has no idea about the hell that's about to rain down upon them, do they." "Here's to family reunions," was all Rhys said. Then -- Sarah J. Maas
And... And I love him enough to want him to find someone who can truly love him like he deserves. And I love myself... I love myself enough to not want to settle until I find that person, too. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I promise," she breathed into the soil, "I promise that I will stop him. I promise that I will never forgive, never forget what they did to you. I promise that I will free Eyllwe. I promise that I will see your father's crown restored to his head. -- Sarah J. Maas
My chest was too tight, too small to fit the ache building in it. -- Sarah J. Maas
I rubbed my left forearm and hand, the entirety of which was now covered in swirls and whorls of black ink. Even my fingers weren't spared, and a large eye was tattooed in the center of my palm. It was feline, and its slitted pupil stared right back at me. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her heart was raw and trembling, and the darkness faded. -- Sarah J. Maas
I love you," I said. "No matter what she says about it, no matter if it's only with my insignificant human heart. Even when they burn my body, I'll love you. -- Sarah J. Maas
The feeling that passed between them, so powerful there was no language to describe it... It was not mere friendship, but something born of and strengthened by it. -- Sarah J. Maas
That gods-damned nightgown. -- Sarah J. Maas
She would not waste energy missing him, wishing he were here to talk everything through, or to just have the comfort of waking up beside him and knowing he existed. She swallowed -- Sarah J. Maas
She hated Death. And Death could go to hell, too - -- Sarah J. Maas
I've always been online and available to my fans. -- Sarah J. Maas
So I'm your huntress and thief?" His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, "You are my salvation, Feyre. -- Sarah J. Maas
We need hope as much as we need bread and meat," he interrupted, his eyes clear for a rare moment. "We need hope, or else we cannot endure. So let her keep this hope, Feyre. Let her imagine a better life. A better world. -- Sarah J. Maas
In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible. -- Sarah J. Maas
Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we'll burn in hell together.'
'We're not going to hell, Aelin,' he said. 'But wherever we go, we'll go together. -- Sarah J. Maas
I apologise for my behaviour lately. I haven't ... been myself."
Or she'd just been a part of herself that she usually kept on a tight, tight leash, he thought. But he said, "I understand."
And from the way her eyes softened, he knew that was all he'd ever needed to say. -- Sarah J. Maas
You might be my mate, he said, but you remain your own person. You decide your fate - your choices. Not me. You chose yesterday. You choose every day. Forever. -- Sarah J. Maas
She won't understand. And when she goes over the edge, there will be nothing to pull her back."
"She will find her way back. She always does."
Tears formed, but the princess blinked them away. "For all our sakes, I hope you're right. -- Sarah J. Maas
It had been love, and I'd meant it-the happiness, the lust, the peace... I'd felt all of those things. Once. -- Sarah J. Maas
I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all Death's handmaidens. -- Sarah J. Maas
Enjoyed that, did you?" Chaol growled.
"Immensely." Celaena patted Chaol's arm as she took it in her own. "Now you must pretend that you like me, or else everything will be ruined. -- Sarah J. Maas
Perhaps the world would never be perfect, perhaps some things would never be right, but maybe she stood a chance of finding her own sort of peace and freedom. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Crown Prince tipped his head back to the sky and roared, and it was the battle cry of a god. Then the glass castle shattered. -- Sarah J. Maas
I wept as I understood. >i< kill="" me="" now,="">/i< she="" was="" saying.="">i< do="" it="" fast.="" don't="" make="" it="" hurt.="" kill="" me="" now.="">/i< -=""> -- Sarah J. Maas
Her rage took her to a place where she only knew three things: that Chaol had been taken from her, that she was a weapon forged to end lives, and that if Chaol was hurt, no one was going to walk out of that warehouse. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena?" Sam asked into the dark. "Should I worry about going to sleep?"
She blinked, then laughed under her breath. At least Sam took her threats somewhat seriously. -- Sarah J. Maas
There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't tell me what I do and don't deserve. Don't tell me about tomorrow, or the future, or any of it. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Court of Dreams.
The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares ... And the huntress with an artist's soul. -- Sarah J. Maas
I barely saw my silk slipper as it flew through the air, fast as a shooting star, so fast that even a High Lord couldn't detect it as it neared - And slammed into his head. Rhys -- Sarah J. Maas
You want to know what price I asked for forgiving Arobynn, Celaena?" Sam stood so still the he might have been a statue. "My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that. -- Sarah J. Maas
It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but what she was. She had crawled through darkness and blood and despair-she had survived. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Nephelle Philosophy -- Sarah J. Maas
I ate in silence, listening to the rustle of his clothes being donned, trying to think of ice baths, of infected wounds, of toe fungus - anything but his naked body, so close ... and the bed I was sitting on. -- Sarah J. Maas
I came to claim the one I love. -- Sarah J. Maas
No matter what happens," she said quietly, "I want to thank you."
Chaol tilted his head to the side. "For what?"
Her eyes stung but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. "For making my freedom mean something. -- Sarah J. Maas
Enough! We have enough enemies as it is! There are worse things out there to face!"
Celaena slowly turned to him, her face splattered with blood and eyes blazing bright. "No, there aren't," she said. "Because I'm here now. -- Sarah J. Maas
She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name." " 'Magnanimous Holiness'? Oh, I like that one." A ghost of a smile appeared on her face, and Dorian looked down at the book. -- Sarah J. Maas
She could handle if he decided to throw her in the dungeons for a little while, too.
Because somehow, the thought of him getting hurt- or worse- made her willing to rick just about anything. -- Sarah J. Maas
Having Aelin help him the first time had been awkward enough that he couldn't even go until she started singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs and turned on the sink faucet, all the while helping him stand over the toilet. -- Sarah J. Maas
We shall create wonders that will make the world tremble. -- Sarah J. Maas
Mesmerizing - the lethal, gentle beauty of the snow. -- Sarah J. Maas
of seeing her for who she was - not what she was -- Sarah J. Maas
Why bother when a dramatic entrance is so much more fun? -- Sarah J. Maas
She found the rolling earthen hills of the north in his eyes. -- Sarah J. Maas
A hand brushed my back. Then Rhys groaned, "If we're all here, either things went very, very wrong or very right." Cassian's broken laugh cracked out of him. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena." She looked back at him, her red gown sweeping around her. His eyes shone as he flashed her a crooked grin. "I missed you this summer."
She met his stare unflinchingly, returning the smile as she said, "I hate to admit it, Sam Cortland, but I missed your sorry ass, too. -- Sarah J. Maas
Do you lie awake at night to come up with all your witty replies for the following day? -- Sarah J. Maas
I am Celaena Sardothien,Adarlan's Assasin.If these men knew who i was,they'd stop laughing.I am Celaena Sardothien.I am going to win.I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
He won every game, yet she hardly noticed. As long as she hit the ball, it resulted in shameless bragging. When she missed - well, even the fires of Hell couldn't compare to the rage that burst from her mouth. He couldn't remember a time when he'd laugh so hard. -- Sarah J. Maas
I want you to know ... " His lips trembled, and I brushed away the tear that escaped down his cheek. "I want you to know," I whispered, "that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you. And I am honored - honored to be your mate. -- Sarah J. Maas
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years. -- Sarah J. Maas
He did not recognize the guards standing watch at the gates he had once protected so proudly, the gates he had ridden through not even a year ago with an assassin newly freed from Endovier, her chains tied to his saddle.
Now she led him in chains through those gates, an assassin one last time. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart. -- Sarah J. Maas
I see you inherited your father's temper," Darrow sneered. "Is this how you plan to rule? When you don't like someone, you'll threaten them? -- Sarah J. Maas
She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed for no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph. -- Sarah J. Maas
Everyone sounded the same when they died. -- Sarah J. Maas
I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens. -- Sarah J. Maas
He forgot Gavriel and Lorcan as he bolted for her - the gold and red and blue flames utterly hers, this heir of fire. Spying him at last, she smiled faintly. A queen's smile. -- Sarah J. Maas
Yes, she would go - to Rifthold, to anywhere, even through the Gates of the Wyrd and into Hell itself, if it meant freedom. After all, you aren't Adarlan's Assassin for nothing. -- Sarah J. Maas
And now, the very thing that had earned her the right to call herself Adarlan's Assassin would be what sealed her doom. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'd like to debrief you."
She raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you at least going to take me to dinner first?"
"Come on. Let's go to my rooms so you can debrief me like a proper gentleman. -- Sarah J. Maas
But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."
Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."
Every person in the hall held their breath. -- Sarah J. Maas
There were two men in this city responsible for destroying her life and the people she'd loved. She would not leave Rifthold until she'd buried them both. -- Sarah J. Maas
Your name is nothing, Your name is mine the demon hissed.
"what is your name."A command, not a question, as eyes of pure gold met his.
"Dorian," he breathed -- Sarah J. Maas
His skin shimmered with veins of pure gold
iridescent, like a blue butterfly. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I find myself unable to resist the temptation. The same way you can't resist watching me whenever we're out. So territorial. -- Sarah J. Maas
She haunted his thoughts, made him wish to do grand and wonderful things in her name. -- Sarah J. Maas
This doom has not yet come to pass, it seemed to whisper in her ear. There is still time. Do not succumb to fear yet. -- Sarah J. Maas
She didn't care what this group wanted with her. She didn't care what sort of information they expected to twist from her. When they had taken Chaol, they'd made the biggest mistake of their lives. The last mistake, too. -- Sarah J. Maas
Arobynn only smiled at her, taller by a head. And when he reached out, she allowed him to brush his knuckles down her cheek. The calluses on is fingers said enough about how often he practiced. I do not expect you to trust me; I do not expect you to love me. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion snorted. "Hurry up with the eggs. I'm going to die of starvation."
"Make the bacon, or you don't get any."
Aedion could hardly move fast enough. -- Sarah J. Maas
I must do something, Elentiya," Nehemia said, using the name she'd given her on the night Celaena admitted that she was an assassin. "I must find a way to help my people. When does gathering information become a stalemate? When do we act?" Celaena -- Sarah J. Maas
And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever. -- Sarah J. Maas
A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky. -- Sarah J. Maas
Something molten rushed through her, pouring over every crack and fracture still left gaping and open. Not to hurt or mar - but to weld.
To forge. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'd hate for you to waste away into nothing. It'd be a shame to lose the most beautiful woman in the world so soon into her immortal, wicked life. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd hardly known where she was going while the gloriella tore through her; all she'd known was that she had to get someplace safe. And somehow, she had wound up exactly where she knew she'd be safest. -- Sarah J. Maas
Down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. The -- Sarah J. Maas
This girl wasn't like wildfire - she was wildfire . Deadly and uncontrollable. And slightly out of her wits. -- Sarah J. Maas
Some night soon, I'll sneak back in here and we can eat chocolates until we vomit."
"We're such refined, genteel ladies."
"Please," Lysandra said, waving a manicured hand, "you and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins. Don't even try to deny it. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm the Captain of the Guard-I'm not exactly a catch for any of them." There was sorrow in his eyes, though it was well concealed.
"Are you mad? You're better than anyone in here. -- Sarah J. Maas
I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing it on certain body areas and I might come faster. -- Sarah J. Maas
If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?" - Lucien Vanserra -- Sarah J. Maas
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fly, Abraxos," she breathed.
Abraxos sucked in a great breath, tucked his wings in tight, and fell off the side of the post.
He liked to do that - just tumble off as though he'd been struck dead.
Her wyvern, it seemed, had a wicked sense of humor. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion's heart stopped dead. "It's a sea dragon," he managed to say.
Well, at least he now knew what secret form Lysandra had been working on. -- Sarah J. Maas
The kiss obliterated her. It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing. His -- Sarah J. Maas
Better than being a dog leashed by a psychotic monster. -- Sarah J. Maas
Are you as deft at handling your sword as Captain Westfall?"
"Better," he whispered in her ear. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world. -- Sarah J. Maas
I laid my hand flat on the table. "I can eat, drink, fuck and fight just as well as I did before. Better, even." Cassian chocked on his water. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena pulled another book toward her and grinned. It was as if someone had read her mind. It was a large black volume entitled The Walking Dead in tarnished silver letters. Thankfully, the captain didn't see the title before she opened it. -- Sarah J. Maas
I want to take my time with you - to learn ... every inch of you. And this apartment has very, very thin walls. I don't want to have an audience" he added as he leaned down again, brushing his mouth over the cut at the base of her throat, "when I make you moan, Aelin. -- Sarah J. Maas
Nehemia looked after Cain, and her dark eyes narrowed. "Something about him makes me want to beat in his face." Celaena laughed. "I'm glad I'm not the only one." Chaol -- Sarah J. Maas
I want you to know," she whispered to the wind, to the earth, to the body far beneath her, "that you were right. You were right. I am a coward. And I have been running for so long that I've forgotten what it is to stand and fight. -- Sarah J. Maas
Not forever,' he said onto my mouth. And though I knew it was a lie, I put my arms around his neck and kissed him. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dramatic rescues give him purpose and fulfillment in his dull, immortal life. -- Sarah J. Maas
Stay with the High Lord, human. You will be safe. -- Sarah J. Maas
Feyre Archeron." A labored breath. "I told you - to stay with the High Lord. And you did. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dance with me, Celaena, he said again, his voice rough. When her eyes met his she forgot about the cold, and the moon, and the glass palace looming above them. The secret library and the king's plans and Mort and Elena faded into nothing. She took his hand and there was only the music and Chaol. -- Sarah J. Maas
There are other ways around it, she had added with such quiet venom. We might not be able to deal with him, but there are some friends that I made across the sea ... -- Sarah J. Maas
Alone, yet surrounded by thousands -- Sarah J. Maas
I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin can decide what to tell you." "Such a good dog." Rowan -- Sarah J. Maas
So she began her death vigil. -- Sarah J. Maas
It's Aelin now," she snapped as loudly as she dared. "Celaena Sardothien doesn't exist anymore. -- Sarah J. Maas
it is the family you make, not the one you are born into, that matters. -- Sarah J. Maas
Wasn't that wonderful?
Breathing hard, Celeana didn't say anything as she punched Ansel so hard in the face that the girl went flying off her horse and tumbled onto the sand. Ansel just clutched her jaw and laughed. -- Sarah J. Maas
We're too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else. -- Sarah J. Maas
I love you.Thorns and All. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I couldn't ... I couldn't stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can't stay away. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena stared at the dark, tilled earth, a chill wind rustling her veil.
Her chest ached, but this was the one last thing she had to do, the one last honor she could give her friend.
Celaena tilted her head to the sky, closed her eyes, and began to sing. -- Sarah J. Maas
Alis's lips thinned, but she said, The next time that fool Lucien gives you advice on how to trap the Suriel, you come to me. Dead chickens, my sagging ass. All you needed to do was offer it a new robe, and it would have groveled at your feet. -- Sarah J. Maas
The world didn't need an assassin with a coward's heart. It needed someone like Nehemia. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was a voice she had heard before, deep and raspy. It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold of a winter long since passed. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because I know where everything in this room is. All the books, the papers-and the moment they start cleaning, those things get hopelessly organized and tucked away, and I can never find them again. -- Sarah J. Maas
She looked at the exquisite red carpet beneath her feet. Someone had done a splendid job of getting all the blood out. -- Sarah J. Maas
He cocked his head. "I've never been with a witch."
Let her rip out his throat for that. End it.
A row of iron fangs snapped down over teeth as her smile grew."I've been with plenty of men. you're all the same. Taste the same." She looked over as if he were her next meal. -- Sarah J. Maas
So the world ended.
And the next one began.
They were infinite.
They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity. -- Sarah J. Maas
Another long silence, then a sigh. "Not in one way," Chaol said. "I bet he would have wanted you to survive
to live. So you didn't fail him, not in that regard -- Sarah J. Maas
You can hardly expect us to allow a nineteen-year-old assassin to parade into our kingdom and start yapping orders, regardless of bloodline. -- Sarah J. Maas
A city of light and music, watched over by an alabaster castle with an opal tower so bright it could be viewed for miles. The -- Sarah J. Maas
He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that she was still lying beside him. -- Sarah J. Maas
More - I wanted the hardness of his body crushing against mine; I wanted his mouth and teeth and tongue on my bare skin, on my breasts, between my legs. Everywhere - I wanted him everywhere. I was drowning in that need. -- Sarah J. Maas
Something thumped in front of me. A bottle of wine. "It's fine if you drink directly from it," was all Mor said. -- Sarah J. Maas
A merchant came by a few years ago - he told me there was a mortal High King who had set himself up there. But I heard a whisper on the wind recently that said he'd been deposed by a young woman with wine-red hair who now calls herself their High Queen. -- Sarah J. Maas
They alighted on a little plateau covered in purple and orange wildflowers, its grasses hissing in the wind. Abraxos was practically grunting with joy, and Manon, her exhaustion as heavy as the red cloak she wore, didn't bother to reprimand him. -- Sarah J. Maas
Why bother? Maybe the world's not worth saving. She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes. -- Sarah J. Maas
Cauldron save you.
Mother hold you.
Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey.
Fear no evil.
Feel no pain.
Go, and enter eternity. -- Sarah J. Maas
I didn't want you to feel inadequate, -- Sarah J. Maas
Fleetfoot turned to look up at Celaena, her golden eyes full of question. Celaena reached down to stroke the warm head, the long ears, the slender muzzle. But the question remained. Celaena said, "She's never coming back." The dog kept waiting. -- Sarah J. Maas
My priority would be to protect my family
and I would have picked whatever side could keep them safest. I hadn't thought of it as a weakness until now. -- Sarah J. Maas
Love can be a poison. -- Sarah J. Maas
Where are our allies, Aelin? Where are our armies? -- Sarah J. Maas
He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they'd met, when he'd understood that the prince was his brother in soul. I love you. -- Sarah J. Maas
They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity. The king standing before them gaped as the shield of flame died out to reveal Aelin and Dorian, hand in hand, glowing like newborn gods as their magic entwined. -- Sarah J. Maas
Evangeline, go onto the roof and raise hell for Aedion and Rowan." "Take -- Sarah J. Maas
If he wanted to break her curse, he need only find a human girl willing to marry him. But not any girl - a human with ice in her heart, with hatred for our kind. A human girl willing to kill a faerie. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion rubbed at his face. "Do you understand what it was like to sit on my ass while you were gone? You said two hours. What was I supposed to think?"
"Aedion," she said as calmly as she could, and pulled off her filthy gloves before taking his broad, callused hand. "I get it. I do. -- Sarah J. Maas
Only a coward captures men the way you did."
"A coward? Or a pragmatist? -- Sarah J. Maas
They tried to shoot my ... Rowan through the heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
So she moved away from the carving of the mythical stag, instantly cold as she severed contact with the delightful heat living within the stone. Part of her could have sworn that ancient, strange power was sad to see her go. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone."
And for a moment, I remembered that faerie who had died in our foyer, and how I'd told Tamlin the same thing. "Thank you," I said, my throat tight. -- Sarah J. Maas
The world began and ended in fire. -- Sarah J. Maas
Well, he was certainly desirable-as desirable as Sam, maybe. Sam-when had she ever thought of him as desirable? He'd laugh until he died if ever knew she thought of him like that. -- Sarah J. Maas
I love my people, and my family. Do not think I won't become a monster to keep them protected. -- Sarah J. Maas
Mother hold you. May you pass through the gates; may you smell that immortal land of milk and honey. Fear no evil. Feel no pain. May you enter enternity. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you are allowed to change so greatly in two years, may I not be permitted to have changed as well?" With -- Sarah J. Maas
Just her, just him. Just as it should be; no loss of life beyond their own, no soul stained but hers. It would take a monster to destroy a monster. If -- Sarah J. Maas
Elide did not give her fear another heartbeat to whisper its poison into her blood. -- Sarah J. Maas
She moved like a midnight storm. Whatever training she'd had in Wendlyn, whatever that prince had taught her ... Gods help them all. -- Sarah J. Maas
Tell Aelin Galathynius that Wendlyn has never forgotten Evalin Ashryver," Galan said to him, to Aedion. "Or Terrasen. -- Sarah J. Maas
Perhaps you should consider your difficulty in getting past Wendlyn's naval defences to be a sign that you should stop playing at being a god."
"Playing?" The King smiled, his crooked teeth glowing yellow in the firelight. "I am not playing. And this is not a game. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're welcome, you know." "For what?" Rhys paused less than a foot away, sliding his hands into his pockets. The night didn't seem to ripple from him here - and he appeared, despite his perfection, almost normal. "For saving you when asked." I -- Sarah J. Maas
When he finished, I tipped back my head and howled, my laughter like sunshine shattering age-hardened ice. -- Sarah J. Maas
No, he had to remember she was an assassin with the blessing of a pretty face and sharp wits. She washed her hands with blood, and was just as likely to slit his throat as offer him a kind word. -- Sarah J. Maas
No fear in her eyes - in her pretty, mortal face.
None
It'd be more trouble than it was worth. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lysandra slipped closer, a solid rock in the thrashing sea of his rage. -- Sarah J. Maas
You look ... better than before."
Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod.
"And you hair is ... clean. -- Sarah J. Maas
You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her -- Sarah J. Maas
She shrugged, as if it could somehow diminish the grief he still saw in her eyes, shining so bright in the firelight. "So am I," she whispered, and faced the fire again. -- Sarah J. Maas
She knew the gold in her eyes had shifted to flame, because when she looked to Maeve, the queen's face had gone bone-white. And then Celaena set the world on fire. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I was beautiful. I was strong. I -- Sarah J. Maas
She didn't know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to rip and roar and rend the world into pieces. She felt it all - too keenly, too sharply. Hated and cared and loved and dreaded, more than other people, she sometimes thought. -- Sarah J. Maas
Manon had never seen her grandmother fight, never trained with her. And some small part of Manon wondered if it was because her grandmother did not want others to know how skilled she was. -- Sarah J. Maas
There was never absolute good or absolute evil (though the king was definitely the exception). And even if these men were corrupt in some ways, they were also saving lives. While -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan looked into her eyes, into the very core of her, and said, Fireheart. -- Sarah J. Maas
He went on about the different types - the bulls were the best, but a female could be just as fierce and twice as smart. -- Sarah J. Maas
The ship began moving. And Chaol - the man she hated and loved so much that she could hardly think around him - just stood there, watching her go. -- Sarah J. Maas
He was done with politics and intrigue. He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear would keep him from her. No, if they tried to take her from him, he'd rip the world apart with his bare hands. And for some reason, that didn't terrify him. -- Sarah J. Maas
A half-wild beast, Nesta had once called me. It was an effort to not take his hand, to not reach out to him and tell him that I understood. -- Sarah J. Maas
She could not remember what it was like to be free. A pit yawned open beneath her feet, so deep that she had to move lest it swallow her whole. She -- Sarah J. Maas
I met those laughing, fierce hazel eyes. Cassian's smile softened. "Hello, Feyre." My throat tightened to the point of pain, and I threw my arms around his neck, embracing him tightly. "I missed you, too," Cassian murmured, squeezing me. -- Sarah J. Maas
I braced my hands on my hips, examining the drop, the trees, the lake beyond. "What did I do wrong?"
Azriel, who had been sharpening Truth-Teller in his lap, flicked his hazel eyes up to me. "Aside from the tree? -- Sarah J. Maas
It should have been me. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because your human joy fascinates me - the way you experience things, in your life span, so wildly and deeply and all at once, is ... entrancing. I'm drawn to it, even when I know I shouldn't be, even when I try not to be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Thank you for the oil," he added. "My skin was a little dry. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Wall on Shabbat was one of the coolest experiences, full of joy and energy. I left Israel overflowing with pride. It's a magical, welcoming place. -- Sarah J. Maas
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
Be happy, Feyre. -- Sarah J. Maas
As the memory of that day echoed through her, she remembered the words Sam kept screaming at Arobynn, as the King of the Assassins beat her, the words that she'd somehow forgotten in the fog of pain: I'll kill you! Sam had said it like he meant it. He'd bellowed it, again and again and again ... -- Sarah J. Maas
There was a darkness in his eyes that felt cold and foreign, like the gaps between the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
said, I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything that I am. His -- Sarah J. Maas
In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself. -- Sarah J. Maas
He felt as if there were something inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. -- Sarah J. Maas
Gods, he was brilliant. Cunning and wicked and brilliant.
Even when he beat the hell out of her. Every. Damn. Day. -- Sarah J. Maas
Eyllwe," Chaol breathed. "Send word to Eyllwe. Tell them to hold on - tell them to prepare." Perhaps it was the light, perhaps it was the cold, but Aedion could have sworn there were tears in the captain's eyes as he said, "Tell them it's time to fight back. -- Sarah J. Maas
WITCH KILLER - THE HUMAN IS STILL INSIDE HIM -- Sarah J. Maas
No longer would they be locked away in her heart. No longer would she be ashamed. -- Sarah J. Maas
You gave up on me," I said a bit more loudly. "You were my friend. And you picked him - picked obeying him, even when you saw what his orders and his rules did to me. Even when you saw me wasting away day by day." "You -- Sarah J. Maas
A city lay out there, that I had barely observed or cared about. I wanted it - life, people. I wanted to see it, feel its rush through my blood. No boundaries, no limits to what I might encounter or do. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was a long story, and sometimes she grew quiet and cried - and during those times he leaned over to wipe away her tears. -- Sarah J. Maas
One arrow, that had been her promise. But she'd also promised Ansel that she had twenty minutes to get out of range. Celaena had fired after twenty-one. -- Sarah J. Maas
And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'. -- Sarah J. Maas
What got under my skin," Rhys said, his breathing a bit uneven, "is that you smiled at him. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't believe for one damn minute that you're remotely fine with being a pretty trophy for someone who sat on his ass for nearly fifty years, then sat on his ass while you were shredded apart - " "Stop -- Sarah J. Maas
That I might always be a little bit vicious and restless. That I might crave peace, but never a cage of comfort. -- Sarah J. Maas
Hearing that people read my books when they were sick, or that the books helped them find an escape when they were having a hard time ... stuff like that makes all the hard work pay off. -- Sarah J. Maas
To escape death, she'd become death.
page 294 Crown of Midnight -- Sarah J. Maas
It gave him hope - hope that he had not lost his soul in the act of killing, hope that humanity could still be found, and honor could be regained ... -- Sarah J. Maas
Have you peed somewhere and wish to tell me about it? -- Sarah J. Maas
We do not look bad, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.'
'What if we go on only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?'
'Then it is not the end. -- Sarah J. Maas
As a massive fangirl myself, having people ship any of my characters is just beyond cool. -- Sarah J. Maas
It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. And what monstrosity ruled over it all. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin slumbered beside him, her breathing deep and even, yet again wearing one of his shirts. Some primal part of him snarled in satisfaction at the sight, at knowing she was covered in his scent. -- Sarah J. Maas
I love you," Sam said.
Celaena wrapped her arms around him and held him close, breathing his scent. Her only reply was, "I hate packing. -- Sarah J. Maas
How'd you remember my brother's name?" She shrugged, not quite understanding the gleam in his eye. "You told me. Why wouldn't I remember it? -- Sarah J. Maas
I suppose if we're going to die, it should be for a noble cause," he said. -- Sarah J. Maas
TERRASEN REMEMBERS EVALIN ASHRYVER.
DO YOU?
I FOUGHT AT MISTWARD FOR YOUR PEOPLE.
RETURN THE GODS-DAMNED FAVOR. -- Sarah J. Maas
I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wondrous weight between my shoulder blades, "When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness starts to stare back -- Sarah J. Maas
You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if you only dared. -- Sarah J. Maas
Perhaps. I can understand wanting to kill the competetion, but to do it so viciously ... I hope it's nota a pattern."
Dorian's blood went a bit cold. "You think they'll try to kill Celaena?"
"I added some extra guards around her rooms."
"To protect her, or to keep her in? -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd been in love with him for a while now. Longer than she wanted to admit. She tried not to think about it, whether he felt the same. Those things - those wishes - were at the bottom of a very, very long and bloody priority list. So -- Sarah J. Maas
I want to live first. With you. I want to see things and have adventures. I want to learn what is it to be immortal, to be your mate, to be part of your family. I want to be ... ready for them. And I selfishly want to have you all to myself for a while. -- Sarah J. Maas
It would take time, he knew - for it to stop hurting, to let go. But the pain wouldn't last forever. -- Sarah J. Maas
There had once been a time when I'd dreaded the end of summer, had prayed it would hold out for as long as possible. Now the thought of endless warmth and sun made me . . . bored. Restless. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dance, Feyre," he whispered. -- Sarah J. Maas
No. I can survive well enough on my own - if given the proper reading material. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am going to destroy everything you love. -- Sarah J. Maas
Oh, you should have been born with my abilities, if only to have felt the rage that seeped from him."
I didn't want to think much about his abilities. "Who's to say he won't splatter you as well?"
"Perhaps he'll try- but I have a feeling he'll kill Amarantha first. -- Sarah J. Maas
I can't tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her salary as King's Champion was considerable, and Celaena spent
every last copper of it. Shoes, hats, tunics, dresses, jewelry, weapons,
baubles for her hair, and books. Books and books and books. So many
books that Philippa had to bring up another bookcase for her room. -- Sarah J. Maas
Mort chuckled when she staggered through the tomb door. "Witch Slayer, are you? Another lovely title to add to your repertoire. -- Sarah J. Maas
For him, that's what battle is. A Symphony. -- Sarah J. Maas
There was no force in any world that could keep her contained. -- Sarah J. Maas
The music was a tapestry woven of light and dark and color, building delicate links in a chain that latched on to her heart and spread out into the world, binding her to it, connecting everything. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion hadn't dared tell the shifter that he often counted the minutes until she returned, that his chest always felt unbearably tight until he spotted whatever winged or finned form she wore returning to them. -- Sarah J. Maas
He'd known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not. -- Sarah J. Maas
And will you come with me; On this adventure - and all the rest?"
"Always -- Sarah J. Maas
Better to die with my chin held high than groveling like a cowering worm. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lysandra's smile was a thing of savage, dark beauty. -- Sarah J. Maas
Sam's hand brushed her shoulder, and she almost jumped out of her skin as he brought his mouth close to her ear and murmured, "You look beautiful. Though I bet you already know that." She most certainly did. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had looked at that cottage with hope; I had looked at it with nothing but hatred. And I knew which one of us had been stronger. -- Sarah J. Maas
Monster. And yet ... For her friends, for her family, she would gladly be a monster. For Rowan, for Dorian, for Nehemia, she would debase and degrade and ruin herself. -- Sarah J. Maas
Gods, without his magic ... Humans were remarkable. To be able to survive without leaning on magic ... He had to give them credit. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dance after dance after dance, until sweat was running down my back as I worked to keep up, keep that smile on my face, to remember to laugh when my hands were within strangling distance from his throat. -- Sarah J. Maas
With the Cauldron, you could do other things than raise the dead. You could destroy the wall. -- Sarah J. Maas
trained until they were seventeen, when their virginity was sold to the highest bidder. -- Sarah J. Maas
Before you start yelling . . . , -- Sarah J. Maas
The late afternoon sun, trapped beneath a wall of pewter, stained the clouds a yellowish gray, making the sky unusually bright. It felt surreal, as if the horizon had disappeared beyond the hills. She was stranded in a world of glass. -- Sarah J. Maas
There are good days and hard days for me - even now. Don't let the hard days win. -- Sarah J. Maas
Elide said, "Your mount doesn't seem evil." Abraxos's tail thumped on the ground, the iron spikes in it glinting. A giant, lethal dog. With wings. -- Sarah J. Maas
They were full of light, of fire and starlight and sunshine. They over-flowed with it as they snapped the final tether on the king's power and cleaved his darkness away, burning it up until it was nothing. -- Sarah J. Maas
Stirred him so bone deep it was like he'd found a part of him he hadn't even realized was missing. -- Sarah J. Maas
The two princes stared at each other, one gold and one silver, one her twin and one her soul-bonded. There was nothing friendly in the stares, nothing human - two Fae males locked in some unspoken dominance battle. -- Sarah J. Maas
She yawned, and Rowan rubbed his eyes, his other hand still in hers. But he didn't let go. And when she awoke before dawn, warm and safe and rested, Rowan was still holding her hand, clasped to his chest. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion yawned - the lousiest attempt at one Rowan had ever seen - and excused himself. -- Sarah J. Maas
But she didn't want to know - didn't want to think about the Sun Goddess and her agenda as she flung herself on Rowan, breathing in his scent, memorizing the feel of him. The first member of her court - the court that would change the world. The court that would rebuild it. Together. -- Sarah J. Maas
No flicker of amusement, no hint of fear. The woman could give Rowan a run for his money for sheer iciness. -- Sarah J. Maas
To whatever end. -- Sarah J. Maas
When you shift, will your hawk form be plucked, then? -- Sarah J. Maas
The queen hadn't even bothered to say good-bye. She'd just dashed for the injured Fae warrior, his name like a prayer on her lips. Rowan. -- Sarah J. Maas
From tears to sass in a few minutes. I'm glad the month apart hasn't dimmed your usual good spirits. -- Sarah J. Maas
I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us ... I would find you. I don't care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always. -- Sarah J. Maas
Even when we're apart tomorrow, I'll be with you every step of the way. And every step after - wherever that may be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Where is Aelin.
Where is my wife? -- Sarah J. Maas
If you're going to have a pissing contest, can you at least do it on the roof? -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan lifted his eyebrows. Are you all right?
She nodded. I just want to get through these two days and be done with it.
"That will never stop being strange," Aedion muttered.
"Deal with it," she told him, carrying the suit into the bedroom. "Let's go hunt ourselves a pretty little demon. -- Sarah J. Maas
It would all be fine, even if it went to hell, so long as he was here with her. -- Sarah J. Maas
She wondered whether the queen knew. Rowan did. Aedion did. And Arobynn did. He had understood that with Rowan, she was no longer afraid of him; with Rowan, Arobynn was now utterly unnecessary. Irrelevant. -- Sarah J. Maas
Thirty minutes later, Rowan was still staring up at the ceiling, teeth gritted as he calmed the roaring in
his veins that was steadily shredding through his self-control.
That gods-damned nightgown.
Shit.
He was in such deep, unending shit. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan stood with his queen in the rain, breathing in her scent, and let her steal his warmth for as long as she needed. -- Sarah J. Maas
I claim you, Aelin. To whatever end. -- Sarah J. Maas
You are my Fireheart -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan had not possessed an army of his own to give to Aelin. To give to Terrasen. So he had won an army for her. -- Sarah J. Maas
This thing between them, the force of it, could devour the world. And if they picked it, picked them, it might very well cause the end of it. -- Sarah J. Maas
I know you two are old and up past your bedtime so ill keep this quick. -- Sarah J. Maas
You and I have always relished damning the odds. -- Sarah J. Maas
She slid of out his grasp. "If we live through tomorrow, you'll get the rest."
He didn't know whether to laugh or roar. "Are you trying to bribe me into surviving? -- Sarah J. Maas
What do you want me to tell you, Fireheart? -- Sarah J. Maas
Ice and fire. Frost and embers. Locked in a battle, pushing and pulling. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin sighed. 'This place has been shut down for months, and yet I swear I can still hear the music floating in the air.'
Rowan angled his head, studying the dark with those immortal senses. 'Perhaps the music does live on, in some form.'
The thought made her eyes sting. -- Sarah J. Maas
Tell me that we'll get through tomorrow. Tell me that we'll survive the war. Tell me - " She swallowed hard. "Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we'll burn in hell together. -- Sarah J. Maas
She looked at them, at the three males who meant everything - more than everything. Then she smiled with every last shred of courage, of desperation, of hope for the glimmer of that glorious future. Let's go rattle the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
And had then acted territorial enough to make Rowan wonder if he seemed so ridiculous around Aelin all the time. -- Sarah J. Maas
Why should I bother defending myself," Nesta said with lethal cold, "to a male who is so puffed up on his own sense of importance there's barely enough space in the room for his enormous head? -- Sarah J. Maas
And what's wrong with headstrong girls?" she pressed. "Other than the fact that they're not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip? -- Sarah J. Maas
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. -- Sarah J. Maas
Elide found herself not at all afraid as Lorcan caressed her lips with his own. Not afraid of anything as he did it again, kissing one corner of her mouth, then the other. Such -- Sarah J. Maas
Lysandra said softly, "I will not apologize to you. I serve her. And I am willing to spend the rest of my life pretending to be her so that her sacrifice isn't in vain - " "You -- Sarah J. Maas
It was time. One breath - another. She was the heir of fire. She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed for no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph. Aelin -- Sarah J. Maas
After that, she'd sworn never to trust girls again, especially girls with agendas and power of their own. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lysandra had entered and passed out in her bed with no explanation for why or what she'd been doing beforehand. And since she was utterly unconscious, Aelin had just climbed into bed beside her. -- Sarah J. Maas
were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world. Rhys -- Sarah J. Maas
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison -- Sarah J. Maas
One last time - you have to wear this mask one last time, and then you can bury Celaena Sardothien forever. -- Sarah J. Maas
Everything about the stranger radiated sensual grace and ease. High Fae, no doubt. His short black hair gleamed like a raven's feathers, offsetting his pale skin and blue eyes so deep they were violet, eevn in the firelight They twinkled with amusent as he beheld me. -- Sarah J. Maas
His short black hair gleamed like a raven's feathers, off-setting his pale skin and blue eyes so deep they were violet, even in the firelight. -- Sarah J. Maas
You know I'm always happy to tangle in the sheets with you, Amren, -- Sarah J. Maas
Run and run and disappear into the mountains and live in solitude in the dark green of the wild, with a pine needle carpet and a blanket of stars overhead. She could do it. -- Sarah J. Maas
But no matter what I did, Elentiya, I want you to know that in the darkness of the past ten years, you were one of the bright lights for me. Do not let that light go out -- Sarah J. Maas
Have you come to save me at last, Aelin Galathynius? -- Sarah J. Maas
My name is Sam Cortland... and I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'd endure every second of it over again so I could find you. -- Sarah J. Maas
Sam glanced at her, a hint of amusement shining in his eyes.
Celaena smiled at him, and the world, for one flickering heartbeat, felt right. -- Sarah J. Maas
You and I put on a good show, I said back. The person who said that, husky and sultry - I'd never heard that voice come out of me before. Even in my mind. -- Sarah J. Maas
The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro. -- Sarah J. Maas
You can't get any more epic than a lightsaber battle. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I'll always make time for you. -- Sarah J. Maas
I promise they are not dull, for I am not one inclined to sit through pages of nonsense and bloated speech, though perhaps you enjoy works and authors who think very highly of themselves. -- Sarah J. Maas
Ashryver eyes.
The fairest eyes, from legends old
of brightest, ringed with gold. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was twenty-three years old. She never married, and her family shunned her. She refused to tell anyone who'd sired me, and took their disdain, their humiliation, without an ounce of self-pity. She did it because she loved me, not you. -- Sarah J. Maas
The sunlight gilded the balcony as Asterin whispered, so softly that only Manon could hear, "Bring my body back to the cabin."
Something in Manon's chest broke - broke so violently that she wondered if it was possible for no one to have heard it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion shrugged. "I find pleasure in both, depending on my mood and the person." One of his former lovers still remained one of his closest friends - and most skilled commanders in his Bane. "Attraction is attraction. -- Sarah J. Maas
They joined hands.
So the world ended.
And the next one began. -- Sarah J. Maas
Cassian had been teaching me these weeks about how to feel out an opponent - what were her words but the opening movements in another sort of battle? -- Sarah J. Maas
He would not apologize for today, or yesterday, or for any of it. And she would not ask him to, not now that she understood that in the weeks she had been looking at him it had been like gazing at a reflection. No wonder she had loathed him. -- Sarah J. Maas
With nothing else to distract her, Celeana eventually returned to thinking about Sam. Even weeks later, she had no idea how she'd somehow gotten attached to him, what he'd been shouting when Arobynn beat her, and why Arobynn had thought he'd need three seasoned assassins to restrain him that day. -- Sarah J. Maas
I let my towel drop to the carpet.
Let him look me over as I put a hand on his chest, his heart raging beneath my palm.
"Ready for ravishing. -- Sarah J. Maas
His pupils flared. "Is there a reason you do that, Princess?" "Is there any reason not to? -- Sarah J. Maas
We were children then. We are allowed to make mistakes, to figure out who we wish to be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either. -- Sarah J. Maas
Honestly, I think there's a cycle to the popularity of fantasy and fairytales that usually coincides with times of unrest or hardship in our own world. By retelling these legends or immersing ourselves in fantasy realms, we can safely explore the very real, very day-to-day darkness of our own lives. -- Sarah J. Maas
A heartbeat later, his note said, Try not to moan too loudly when you dream about me. I need my beauty rest. I -- Sarah J. Maas
Embracing Sam was different, somehow. Like she wanted to curl into his warmth, like for one moment, she didn't have to worry about anything or anybody. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lucien sighed as he looked me over. "Do you ever stop being so serious and dull?" "Do you ever stop being such a prick?" I snapped back. Dead - really, truly, I should have been dead for that. But Lucien grinned at me. "Much better." Alis, it seemed, had not been wrong. -- Sarah J. Maas
If the Vaults were the heart of Rifthold's underworld, then the glass castle was the soul of Adarlan's empire. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her heart stopped when Chaol entered instead. -- Sarah J. Maas
Son or no son," the king snarled, "I am still your king. You will obey me, Dorian Havilliard, or you will pay. I'll have no more of your questioning. -- Sarah J. Maas
Together, we stared at our reflection. Lord and Lady Night. "Ready to be wicked?" he purred in my ear. My -- Sarah J. Maas
Because I am from Terrasen and believed my queen dead. And now she is alive, and fighting, so I will fight with her. So that no other girls will be taken from their homes and brought to Morath and forgotten. -- Sarah J. Maas
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dorian said, "So here we are." "The end of the road," Aelin said with a half smile. "No," Chaol said, his own smile faint, tentative. "The beginning of the next. -- Sarah J. Maas
He'd had so many chances over the years to tell her that he loved her - he'd known how much she'd craved those words. But he hadn't spoken them until he needed to use them as weapons. -- Sarah J. Maas
Even when this world is a whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you. -- Sarah J. Maas
My father will hunt you for taking his power if he finds out," he said into the frigid dark. "And kill you for learning how to wield it." "He can get in line," was all I said. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because hers was not a story of darkness. -- Sarah J. Maas
I put a hand on my chest, leaning against the wood panels of the stair wall. Rhy's hand covered my own a heartbeat later. "That's what I felt," he said, "when I saw you smile that night we dined along the Sidra. -- Sarah J. Maas
Second place is a nice title for the first loser. -- Sarah J. Maas
Why are you crying?"
"Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be. -- Sarah J. Maas
If I die because of you, I'll beat the shit out of you in hell." She -- Sarah J. Maas
Luck and glory. I wouldn't mind a little of either of those things these days. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin didn't know when she started crying, when her body began shaking with the force of it. She had never said such words- to anyone. Never let herself be that vulnerable, never felt this burning and unending thing, so consuming she might die from the force of it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Then she ripped everything from that well inside her, ripped it out with both hands and her entire raging, hopeless heart.
As she fell, hair whipping her face, Celaena thrust her hands toward the skinwalkers.
"Surprise," she hissed. The world erupted in blue wildfire. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fine. A man - faerie - of few words. I had killed his friend, was an unwanted guest. I wouldn't want to talk to me, either. -- Sarah J. Maas
His wife. Gods above.
He was over five hundred years old - and this... this girl, young woman, she-devil, whatever she was, had just bluffed and lied her way into a job. A sword-thrower indeed. -- Sarah J. Maas
You know, you ladies can let us males do things every now and then. -- Sarah J. Maas
My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds. -- Sarah J. Maas
Alone in the hallway, Celaena watched the shadows cast by the torches. It hadn't been the mere impossibility of a relationship with Ilias that had made her pull away.
No; it was the memory of Sam's face that had stopped her from kissing him. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Wing Leader said from behind her, "Do you believe monsters are born, or made?"
From what she'd seen today, she would say some creatures were very much born evil. But what Manon was asking ... "I'm not the one who needs to answer that question." Elide said. -- Sarah J. Maas
Magic
Whatever had happened, however it had been freed, Manon didn't care.
That mortal, human weight vanished. Strength coursed through her, coating her bones like armor. Invincible, immortal, unstoppable.
Manon tipped her head back to the sky, spread her arms wide, and roared. -- Sarah J. Maas
Yet no matter what happened tomorrow, or next week, or next year, she was grateful. Grateful to the gods, to fate, to herself for being brave enough to kiss him that night. Grateful for this little bit of time she'd been given with him. -- Sarah J. Maas
I love fairy tale retellings and mash-ups. -- Sarah J. Maas
And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me. -- Sarah J. Maas
Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. -- Sarah J. Maas
So here we are.
The end of the road.
No. The beginning of the next. -- Sarah J. Maas
I missed you ... I lied when I said I didn't. From the moment you left, I missed you so much I went out of my
mind ... I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only
an ocean between us. -- Sarah J. Maas
Tell me - everything." So he did. About the hellfire, and the Wyrdhounds, and Lorcan. And then the past three days, of organizing and healing and Lysandra scaring the living shit out of everyone by shifting into a ghost leopard anytime one of Dorian's courtiers stepped out of line. When -- Sarah J. Maas
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war makes wanting things like that unimportant."
Mor was quiet for a heartbeat. "Perhaps. But you should not let war steal it from you regardless. -- Sarah J. Maas
My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that.
She wished he'd punched her in the gut. It would have hurt less. Not trusting herself to keep from falling to her knees with shame right there, she just stalked down the hall. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was told to keep my mouth shut," Manon said. Her grandmother's eyes flashed. "Unless you'd prefer I get on my knees and grovel. -- Sarah J. Maas
Each of Tamlin's movements was precise and efficient, his powerfully muscled legs eating up the earth -- Sarah J. Maas
Love - love was a balm as much as it was a poison. -- Sarah J. Maas
Three stones for the faces of the mother, four bones ... for whatever reason the charlatans came up with that I can't be bothered to remember. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fire-breathing bitch-queen. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan inclined his head. "My lady wants the first shot. She gets the first shot. And when they're scattering in a blind panic, we come in." Aedion gave her a long look. "Don't miss this time." "Asshole," she snapped. -- Sarah J. Maas
Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?"
"No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser. -- Sarah J. Maas
As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company."
"Friend?" he asked.
She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is a better description. Or 'reluctant acquaintance', if you prefer. -- Sarah J. Maas
I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you." Aelin -- Sarah J. Maas
His lips were smooth against my skin, his breath warm, and my knees buckled as he lifted my other hand to his mouth and kissed it, too. Kissed it carefully - in a way that made heat begin pounding in my core, between my legs. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rhys brushed the hair from my face. "It's all part of the game, Feyre darling. Who to trust, when to trust them - what information to barter." "Do you enjoy it?" "Sometimes. Right now, I don't. Not when the risks are this high." His fingers grazed my brow. "When I have so much to lose." I -- Sarah J. Maas
But my sister slowly looked at Lucien. "I made it give something back," she said with terrifying quiet. The Cauldron. -- Sarah J. Maas
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm surprised there aren't more mirrors in this house, since you seem to love looking at yourself so much. Azriel -- Sarah J. Maas
I didn't. My mother gave it to me as a keepsake, then took it back when I reached maturity - and gave it to the Weaver for safekeeping." "Why?" "So I wouldn't waste it. -- Sarah J. Maas
This wasn't music to dance to - it was music to worship, music to fill in the gaps of my soul, to bring me to a place where there was no pain. -- Sarah J. Maas
The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all -- Sarah J. Maas
I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not ... for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't let anyone shame you for what you read or what you love in general. Many people are gonna tell you not to do xyz things. -- Sarah J. Maas
Of course she was worthy. She was Celaena Sardothien, gods be damned. -- Sarah J. Maas
He wondered if she realized that for all she complained about his alpha nonsense, she was pure-blooded alpha herself. Rowan -- Sarah J. Maas
Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. -- Sarah J. Maas
His answering smile evoked silken sheets and jasmine-scented breezes at midnight. -- Sarah J. Maas
We'd better eat before we raise hell." - Aelin Ashrvyer Galathynius -- Sarah J. Maas
But Dorian, tall, toned, and elegant, bore no resemblance to him. And then there was the matter of Dorian's sapphire eyes - not even his mother had his eyes. No one knew where they came from. -- Sarah J. Maas
She batted her eyelashes & readjusted her shackles as if they were lace gloves. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rhysand's face became a mask of calm fury as he stared and stared at me. "I remember you," he purred. "It seems like you ignored my warning to stay out of trouble. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because I wouldn't want to die alone," I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. "Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that.
That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie. -- Sarah J. Maas
And if I asked for the moon on a string?" - Sorsha -- Sarah J. Maas
My motions were mindless, each one some feeble attempt to keep from thinking about what had happened, -- Sarah J. Maas
He'd loved her so much that she still felt the echoes of it, even now. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because destroying a symbol can break the spirits of men as much as bloodshed. -- Sarah J. Maas
Chaol sank to his knees. -- Sarah J. Maas
Never forgive, never forget. -- Sarah J. Maas
In every way that counted, I failed him. -- Sarah J. Maas
Hide from fate all you like," Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. "But it shall soon find you! -- Sarah J. Maas
War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you're on. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'll let Cassian know you're ... open to his advances." "Good," I said. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because if I free Eyllwe and destroy the king as Celaena, I can go anywhere after that. The crown ... my crown is just another set of shackles. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I forgot to tell him," I said quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key."
"Oh?"
I shrugged. "He was the one who let me out.". -- Sarah J. Maas
I could barely look at him without wanting to combust -- Sarah J. Maas
I would like to build a garden," she declared. "After all of this... I think the world needs more gardens."
My throat was too tight to immediately reply, so I just kissed my sister's cheek before I said, "Yes - I think it does. -- Sarah J. Maas
There's a grave I need to visit. -- Sarah J. Maas
They'd never commented on it. I don't know why I'd ever expected them to. Groaning, -- Sarah J. Maas
So I'm just here for decoration?"
"Be grateful I consider you a worthy accessory. -- Sarah J. Maas
Andras was looking for a cure, -- Sarah J. Maas
It's already ended badly. Now it's just a matter of deciding how we meet the consequences. -- Sarah J. Maas
They passed a series of wooden doors that she'd seen a few minutes ago. If she wanted to escape, she simply had to turn left at the next hallway and take the stairs down three flights. The only thing all the intended disorientation had accomplished was to familiarize her with the building. Idiots. -- Sarah J. Maas
I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
Now, I'd replied, I don't know what I want. I can't paint anymore. Why? Because that part of me is empty. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rhysand yelled my name again - yelled it as though he cared. I blacked out, but she brought me back, ensuring that I felt everythingm ensuring that I screamed every time a bone broke. -- Sarah J. Maas
Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you? -- Sarah J. Maas
From now on, there would be no other oaths but this, no other contracts, no other obligations. Never forgive, never forget. -- Sarah J. Maas
I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken. -- Sarah J. Maas
He'd been lucky. The girl, it seemed, had been smart. -- Sarah J. Maas
Do not mistake my silence for lack of feeling. I have good reason to keep my thoughts to myself -- Sarah J. Maas
If these were her last moments, then at least she would go down fighting, to the sound of exquisite music. -- Sarah J. Maas
don't get that unrequited-love, moony-woo-woo look -- Sarah J. Maas
When Rhys came back, after Amarantha, he was a ghost. He pretended he wasn't, but he was. You made him come alive again. -- Sarah J. Maas
I stepped out of the shelter of my savior's arm and turned to thank him. Standing before me was the most beautiful man I'd ever seen. -- Sarah J. Maas
She wasn't fine, not even close.
But she wasn't dead.
And that was a start. -- Sarah J. Maas
She pulled a small box from her pocket.
"There's one more task," Aelin said, holding the box out to Lysandra. "You'll probably hate me for it later. But you can start by saying yes."
"Proposing to me? How unexpected. -- Sarah J. Maas
And here I was, thinking that all the ladies were out so early for Roland and me. When all of them catch a vicious cold, I'll let their fathers know that you're to blame. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you don't stop feeling and start instructing, I'm going to rip out your eyes and replace them with these billiard balls. -- Sarah J. Maas
The music folded over itself like batter being poured from a bowl, one note atop another ... -- Sarah J. Maas
I was loosened, a top whirling around and around, and I didn't know who I danced with or what they looked like, only that I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down. -- Sarah J. Maas
You are sacred vessels," the duke said. "It is an honor to be chosen." "I find that a very male thing to assume. -- Sarah J. Maas
The world balanced on the edge of a knife, slipping, slipping, slipping. -- Sarah J. Maas
I shut him out. Maybe I'd send a water-dog barking after him later - let it bite him in the ass. I -- Sarah J. Maas
Now that Sam was dead, there wasn't anything left outside of the dungeons worth fighting for, anyway. Not when Adarlan's Assassin was crumbling apart, and her world with her. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fear could break a line faster than any enemy charge. -- Sarah J. Maas
So Chaol brushed away her tears, lifted her chin, and kissed her. -- Sarah J. Maas
Witchling. Elide stared after her. She had likely just made the biggest mistake of her life, but ... it was strange. Strange, that feeling of belonging. -- Sarah J. Maas
He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king. -- Sarah J. Maas
Your prince has moved on, my queen has moved on. But you have not. And it will cost you -- Sarah J. Maas
Yet Lysandra did not slow. She did not stop.
For Evangeline. For her future. For her freedom. For the friends who had come for her. -- Sarah J. Maas
He was hers and she was his and they had found each other across centuries of bloodshed and loss, across oceans and kingdoms and war. -- Sarah J. Maas
Say it," I gritted out.
"The High Lord of the Night Court is your mate. -- Sarah J. Maas
I will not be afraid, she vowed, wrapping the familiar words around her heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dorian offered a lazy grin in return, believe it or not, this ship has an unnatural number of attractive men and women on board. You'll fit right in, and fit in with the cranky immortals, I suppose. -- Sarah J. Maas
The music was Tamlin's fingers strumming my body; it was the gold in his eyes and the twist of his smile. It was that breathy chuckle, and the way he said those three words. It was this I was fighting for, this I had sworn to save. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because Celaena was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir to the throne and rightful Queen of Terrasen. It -- Sarah J. Maas
Some party," the stranger whispered in her ear. She twisted to see sapphire eyes gleaming at her. "Are you from Melisande? -- Sarah J. Maas
My dreams have been filled with shadows and wings - the booming of wings soaring between mountain passes. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Lion lingered in the brush, keeping out of sight and sound as the Wolf watched over the dragon still sprawled across the beach. -- Sarah J. Maas
The smallest of them was sprawled on his belly, face buried in a mound of wildflowers. -- Sarah J. Maas
No, the quest did not end here. Not even close. Dorian slid the keys into his pocket.
And the road that now sprawled before him, curving into unknown, awaiting shadow . . . it did not frighten him. -- Sarah J. Maas
He hated him for the twenty-three year old his mother had been, younger than he now was when she'd died, alone and sorrowful. -- Sarah J. Maas
No one was my master - but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. -- Sarah J. Maas
My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song. -- Sarah J. Maas
There once was a lady most beautiful
Spirited, if a little unusual
Her friends were few
But how did the man queue
But to all she gave a refusal -- Sarah J. Maas
So maybe it was the gods at work. Maybe it was some force beyond them, beyond mortal comprehension. Or maybe it was just for what and who Celaena would never be. Yrene -- Sarah J. Maas
Freyre! someone roared. No, not someone - Rhysand. -- Sarah J. Maas
And though he stood taller than her, he felt smaller as Aelin stared at him. No, not just Aelin. Queen Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, he realized, was staring at him. -- Sarah J. Maas
He looked, and with a sort of awareness and surprise that made me fire the second arrow. Just in case - just in case that intelligence was of the immortal, wicked sort. He didn't try to dodge the arrow as it went clean through his wide yellow eye. He collapsed to the ground. Color -- Sarah J. Maas
The rest of the world quieted into nothing. In that moment, after ten long years, Celaena looked at Chaol and realised she was home. -- Sarah J. Maas
He shrugged. "Try thinking of me - how good-looking I am. How talented - " "How arrogant." "That, -- Sarah J. Maas
Thus I became Rhysand's plaything, the harlot of Amarantha's whore. -- Sarah J. Maas
One faerie - and then we were free. Just on more swing of my arm.
And maybe one more after that - maybe one more swing, up and inward and into my own heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
She would remake the world - remake it for them, those she had loved with this glorious, burning heart; -- Sarah J. Maas
You've been going for hunts," Tamlin said at last, "but you really don't have any interest in hunting." He cast me a sidelong glance. "No wonder you two never catch anything." No -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding. -- Sarah J. Maas
There are many types of strength beyond the ability to wield a blade and end lives. -- Sarah J. Maas
I heard you begging someone, anyone, to rescue you, to get you out. I heard you say no." "I -- Sarah J. Maas
She had been right. Why was she always right, in her own odd way? -- Sarah J. Maas
Stolen hours in a decrepit barn with Isaac Hale didn't count; those times were hungry and empty and sometimes cruel, but never lovely. -- Sarah J. Maas
Perhaps she was waiting for me. Perhaps she had ordered the woods to open a path. -- Sarah J. Maas
Why are you crying, Fireheart? -- Sarah J. Maas
Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. -- Sarah J. Maas
Elide immediately shrugged out of Lorcan's grip. Aelin and Aedion had stopped ahead, waiting for her. Smiling faintly - welcomingly.
So Elide headed for them, her court, and did not look back. -- Sarah J. Maas
The following day she didn't expect the messenger who arrived after breakfast, asking for the name of her village. And when she hesitated, he said the Crown Prince wanted to know.
Wanted to know, so he could have it added to his personal map of the continent. -- Sarah J. Maas
Breakfast, it seems, is the only meal any of us are decent at. And this one" - she jabbed a thumb in Rowan's direction - "only knows how to cook meat on a stick over a fire." Lysandra -- Sarah J. Maas
This was the least she owed those murdered in Endovier and Calaculla - the least she could do, after so long. A monster to destroy monsters.
The flames on her left hand burned brighter as Celaena stepped beyond the archway and into the beckoning abyss. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fear no evil," she whispered - just for me. -- Sarah J. Maas
We had contests to see who could write the dirtiest limericks while I was living with my father's war-band by the border. I don't particularly enjoy losing, so I took it upon myself to become good at them. -- Sarah J. Maas
And now-now I didn't know where that put me. Knee-deep in trouble seemed like a good place to start. -- Sarah J. Maas
The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the primal dominance in it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Primal anger sharpened in his gut, brimming with a territorial, possessive need. Not a need for her, but a need to portect
a male's duty and honor. -- Sarah J. Maas
The next time, Emissary, I'll come say hello. -- Sarah J. Maas
A promise was law; a promise was currency; a promise was your bond. -- Sarah J. Maas
But here he was, toeing that line he couldn't stay away from. He -- Sarah J. Maas
I am Aelin Aschryver Galatinius, and I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing it." He panted. "Go ahead. Hate me - despise me for it. -- Sarah J. Maas
A gold coin says he misses," Fenrys rasped.
"Save your breath for healing," Aelin snapped.
"Make it two," Aedion said behind them. "I say he hits."
"You can all go to hell," Aelin snarled. But then added, "Make it five. Ten says he downs it with the first shot. -- Sarah J. Maas
Embrace this," she snarled, and flung a hidden dagger from her vambrace at his head. -- Sarah J. Maas
And just like that, his father fed him to the Wolf. -- Sarah J. Maas
You didn't tell me this would happen."
"You didn't ask. So how am I to blame? -- Sarah J. Maas
Rhysand merely raised a brow. I already have everything I want. -- Sarah J. Maas
Insignificant - that's what all those years I'd given them would be, -- Sarah J. Maas
Actually, she'd been downright awful to him. But he kept his back to her, as though the question didn't matter. And -- Sarah J. Maas
Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so. -- Sarah J. Maas
After a too-long moment, the crown prince spoke. "I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect." His words were coated with glorious boredom. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her people. Her people, waiting for ten years, but no longer. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd been only eight when Arobynn Hamel, her mentor and the King of the Assassins, found her half-submerged on the banks of a frozen river and brought her to his keep on the border between Adarlan and Terrasen. -- Sarah J. Maas
And I realized - I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right. -- Sarah J. Maas
A land where two dreamers had found peace between their peoples. Where there was no wall. No iron wards. No ash arrows. -- Sarah J. Maas
Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lysandra gazed at the ring, then lifted her eyes to Aelin's face - and threw her arms around her neck, squeezing tight. She took that as a yes. -- Sarah J. Maas
But then she snapped your neck."
Tears rolled down his face.
"And I felt you die," he whispered.
Tears were sliding down my own cheeks. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am telling you, Princess, that while you might be the last living direct descendant of Brannon, there are other possibilities, other directions to go in, should you be deemed unfit. -- Sarah J. Maas
Of all the kings and emperors who had come courting her with promises of wealth beyond imagining, it was the knight's gift, of seeing her for who she was - not what she was - that won her heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
You sent that music into my cell. Why?" Rhysand's voice was hoarse. "Because you were breaking. And I couldn't find another way to save you." The -- Sarah J. Maas
You Illyrian males are insufferable.
Rhys had just said, Good thing we make up for it with impressive wingspans. -- Sarah J. Maas
Is it really that hard for you to just agree with me for once?"
"I never disagree."
"You always have an answer for everything." She shook her head. "It's insufferable. -- Sarah J. Maas
The beast plopped into the chair, the wood groaning, and, in a flash of white light, turned into a golden-haired man. I -- Sarah J. Maas
There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Captain of the Guard would be an interesting opponent. Maybe even worthy of some effort on her part. -- Sarah J. Maas
I want a husband to warm my bed, and my bed alone. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am not mortal. I do not play by your rules. I have killed and hunted men for sport. Do not mistake me for a human woman, princeling. -- Sarah J. Maas
All I wanted was to return to - to the people around me. I wanted it badly enough I didn't have room for fear. The worst had happened, and the darkness was calm and quiet. It did not seem like a bad thing to fade into. But I wanted to go home. -- Sarah J. Maas
The words were casual, but that was panic in his eyes. Not-- not the controlling fear Tamlin had once succumbed to, but...genuine terror of not knowing where I was, i I needed help. Just as I would want to know where he was, if he needed help, if he vanished when our enemies surrounded us. -- Sarah J. Maas
Why should I be scared of an oversized bat who likes to throw temper tantrums? -- Sarah J. Maas
I was a dreamer born into the Court of Nightmares," Mor said. "So I got out. -- Sarah J. Maas
My rage had become a living thing inside my chest, an echoing heartbeat that soothed me to sleep and stirred me to waking. -- Sarah J. Maas
The dungeons are full," Chaol lied. "But I'll look into it. -- Sarah J. Maas
I don't make threats. Only promises. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was a beautiful wraith - and when she looked at him, it was like she didn't even know who he was. Dorian -- Sarah J. Maas
It was knowledge that could change everything. It could change the world. Dorian -- Sarah J. Maas
He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, As you wish. -- Sarah J. Maas
I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dorian surged from the chair and dropped to his knees beside the bed. He grabbed Chaol's hand, squeezing it as he pressed his brow against his. "You were dead," the prince said, his voice breaking. "I thought you were dead. -- Sarah J. Maas
And he wondered if Aelin was somehow watching the archipelago, and the seas, and the skies, as if she might never see them again. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dorian, we get to come back from this loss - from this darkness. We get to come back, and I came back for you. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing. -- Sarah J. Maas
It made her the greatest threat he'd ever encountered. -- Sarah J. Maas
If she picked Roland over you, that makes her the greatest fool who ever lived. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because she is dead!" She screamed the last word so loudly it burned in her throat. "Because she is dead, and I am left with my worthless life! -- Sarah J. Maas
I think Nesta feels everything - sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly. -- Sarah J. Maas
I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere to be seen, dressed in his usual immaculate black jacket and pants.
And as those violet eyes met mine, as that familiar half smile faded -- Sarah J. Maas
A protector - that's who he was, and would always be. What I had wanted when I was cold and hard and joyless; what I had needed to melt the ice of bitter years on the cusp of starvation. I didn't have the nerve to wonder what I wanted or needed now. Who I had become. -- Sarah J. Maas
He calls himself the Prince of Merchants... He told me that he's got three daughters who live here. And that he failed them for many years. But he would not fail them this time. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm going to kill you." "Ah, about that," she said, and shifted her wrist just enough for him to feel the blade she'd flicked free in the moment before she'd sensed his attack - the steel now resting against his groin. "Immortality seems like a long, long time to go without your favorite body part. -- Sarah J. Maas
You know, it's starting to sound like you actually believe in me. You'd better be careful. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair. -- Sarah J. Maas
Tomorrow will be better. It might be only a foot more than today, but it will be a foot longer that you can run -- Sarah J. Maas
I couldn't help my blush. Especially as Rhys added, Tonight, I want you to wear that crown to bed. Only the crown. Scoundrel. Always. I -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin Galathynius looked at Manon Blackbeak over their crossed swords and let out a low, vicious snarl. -- Sarah J. Maas
I knew,' it gasped, sensing my shift in thoughts. 'The tracking...I knew of it.'
'Then why come at all?'
'You...were kind. You...fought your fear. You were...kind.'
I began crying. -- Sarah J. Maas
Chaol stepped up to the line. "Dance with me," he said, and held out his hand to her. -- Sarah J. Maas
If Elain's mental gates were those of a sleeping garden, Nesta's...They belonged to an ancient fortress, sharp and brutal. The sort I imagined they once impaled people upon. -- Sarah J. Maas
Get ready to unleash hell. -- Sarah J. Maas
I didn't wait for him to stretch out his hand before I went to him. And looking up into his face I said, "I want to paint you." He gently lifted me into his arms. "Nude would be best," he said in my ear. -- Sarah J. Maas
When she awoke every morning, she repeated the same words: I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was not afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Dawn, Day, and Night," it mused, as if I hadn't even answered. "The seven Courts of Prythian, each ruled by a High Lord, all of them deadly in their own way. -- Sarah J. Maas
Elain had always been gentle and sweet - and I had considered it a different sort of strength. A better strength. To look at the hardness of the world and choose, over and over, to love, to be kind. She had been always so full of light. Perhaps -- Sarah J. Maas
It gives me comfort to know that people like you have a special place in hell waiting for them."
"Tell me something I don't already know. -- Sarah J. Maas
I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have... the wait was worth it. -- Sarah J. Maas
But you were never just Celaena, and I think you knew that, deep down, even before everything happened. I understand now. -- Sarah J. Maas
Your soldiers look like they have seen better days." "Oh, they always look like that. I've tried and tries to get them to focus on outside appearances as much as improving their inner beauty, but... you know how men are. -- Sarah J. Maas
So, yes, I was jealous of him - because it will always be easy for him. And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish. -- Sarah J. Maas
He nodded. "And how old are you?" "Eighteen." But he said nothing. "I know," she continued. "It is impressive that I accomplished so much at such an early age." "Crime isn't an accomplishment, Sardothien. -- Sarah J. Maas
Vain until the bitter end. -- Sarah J. Maas
It's the calm before the storm, Aedion. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd survived Endovier, yet she could still laugh. -- Sarah J. Maas
If it grieves you," he said, the words caressing my bones, "then I don't think it's absurd at all. -- Sarah J. Maas
The music broke her apart and put her back together, only to rend her asunder again and again. -- Sarah J. Maas
Obsidian the gods forbade And stone they greatly feared. -- Sarah J. Maas
There's no way in hell I'm getting out of this bed and going for a run, he murmured onto her head. She chuckled quietly. His hands grazed lower, down her back, not even stumbling over the scar tissue. He'd kissed every scar on her back, on her entire body, last night. -- Sarah J. Maas
It's a good thing while you have superior hearing, I possess superior abilities to keep my mouth shut. -- Sarah J. Maas
He brought his lips to my ear. "I would have been gentle with you, though." I shuddered as I closed my eyes. Every inch of my body went taut as his words echoed through me. "I would have had you moaning my name throughout it all. And I would have taken a very, very long time, Feyre. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't let the hard days win. -- Sarah J. Maas
That wildness, that untamed fierceness ... They weren't born of a free heart, but of one that had known despair so complete that living brightly, living violently, was the only way to outrun it. -- Sarah J. Maas
If there were music and movements that embodied the wildness and recklessness and immortality of youth, they were here, on this dance floor. Doneval -- Sarah J. Maas
Lysandra snorted. Bringing a wet dog into a covert meeting - very queenly. -- Sarah J. Maas
I belong to NO ONE. But my heart belongs to you -- Sarah J. Maas
There was a string - a string tied to my gut that pulled me toward those hills, commanding me to go, to hear the faerie drums -- Sarah J. Maas
Her cheek against the moss, the young princess she had been - Aelin Galathynius - reached a hand for her. 'Get up', she said softly. -- Sarah J. Maas
I smelled jasmine first-then saw stars. A sea of stars flickering beyond glowing pillars of moonstone that framed the sweeping view of endless snowcapped mountains.
"Welcome to the Night Court. -- Sarah J. Maas
And then she went to save her cousin. -- Sarah J. Maas
Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters. -- Sarah J. Maas
My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me. -- Sarah J. Maas
Magic makes people dangerous. -- Sarah J. Maas
The music became a siren song. The melody was my lodestone, and I was powerless against its lure. With each step, I savored the dampness of the grass beneath my bare feet. I didn't remember when I'd lost my shoes. -- Sarah J. Maas
So don't expect me to care when you find yourself nothing more than a puppet. If you aren't one already." He -- Sarah J. Maas
The gasping-fish look is a good one for you, -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm sure you already know this, but you need to actually climb into a bath to get clean - not stare at it. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm happy for you, my friend."
Celaena smiled back. "I think... I think I'm happy for me, too."
And she was. For the first time in years, she was truly happy. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd entered a city made entirely of leather and paper. Celaena put a hand against her heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'd done such a foolish thing in binding myself to Rhysand. Rhysand, with the wings and talons lurking beneath that beautiful, flawless surface; Rhysand, who could shatter minds. I did it for you, I wanted to shout. -- Sarah J. Maas
Even before I knew who you were, Aelin, I knew that what you were working toward . . . It was worth it."
"What is?" Her throat tightened.
"A world where people like me don't have to hide. -- Sarah J. Maas
Abraxos lowered himself to the ground, stretching out his neck until his head rested on the hay not ten feet from Elide. Those giant black eyes stared up at her, almost doglike. -- Sarah J. Maas
But anyone with witch-blood in their veins was worth keeping an eye on.
Or Thirteen. -- Sarah J. Maas
And Elide sobbed as Manon Blackbeak emerged, smiling faintly.
As Manon Blackbeak saw her and Aelin, knee-to-knee in the grass, and mouthed one word.
Hope. -- Sarah J. Maas
I will consider it. - Endymion, Princess Sellene -- Sarah J. Maas
You, Celaena Sardothien, are charged with the deaths of the following people ...
And then he began a long recitation of all those lives she'd taken. The brutal story of a girl who was now gone. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd forgotten the name she'd been given, but it made no difference.
She had only one name now:
Death, devourer of worlds. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had once believed that she'd been born to be a queen.
She had since learned that she'd been born to be a wolf. -- Sarah J. Maas
Yes, he'd fought for me - but I'd fought harder for him. Again, -- Sarah J. Maas
Lysandra rubbed at her face, then squared her shoulders. "The marsh beasts are easily enraged. Like someone I know." Aelin jabbed the shifter with an elbow, and Lysandra snorted. -- Sarah J. Maas
You and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. - Aelin, to Lysandra -- Sarah J. Maas
She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I was a wolf. -- Sarah J. Maas
With that, the stranger stepped from the mist. She had two long daggers in her hands. And both blades were dark with dripping blood. -- Sarah J. Maas
In her bones, in her blood and breath and soul, she was so, so tired. -- Sarah J. Maas
A storm is coming. A great storm. -- Sarah J. Maas
It had filled my time - given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less ... alone. -- Sarah J. Maas
The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry. -- Sarah J. Maas
I would have rather spent another night with a hungry belly than found myself satisfying the appetite of a wolf. Or a faerie. Not -- Sarah J. Maas
I couldn't read, and it had almost killed me. -- Sarah J. Maas
She watched him, her head angled. He sometimes felt that she looked at him the way a cat regards a mouse. He just wondered how long it would take for her to pounce. -- Sarah J. Maas
Even as an immortal, there was not enough time in life to waste it on hatred. -- Sarah J. Maas
I would never have learned that light can be found in even the darkest of hells. That kindness can thrive even amongst the cruelty. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was not a rebel princess, shattering enemy castles and killing kings. She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend. -- Sarah J. Maas
Perhaps allowing them to be friends was a horrible, dangerous idea. -- Sarah J. Maas
I think I preferred it when you wanted to kill me." "Sometimes I think so, too. -- Sarah J. Maas
Chaol took one step toward her, though. One step, then he said, "I love you. -- Sarah J. Maas
Are you married?"
"No."
She picked at her nails. "I'm not married, either. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena's scream was still echoing through the passageway as Chaol leapt off the stairs and hurtled through the misty portal after Fleetfoot. -- Sarah J. Maas
War
war was coming. And they might not all survive it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Chaol had been right. She'd missed the target by six inches to the left, -- Sarah J. Maas
Fine, she wouldn't mind if Kaltain and Perrington met horrible deaths, but Dorian would be there. And Chaol. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're sorry, Chaol's sorry, the whole damn world is sorry. Tell me what you and your movement want. Tell me what you know about the king's plans. -- Sarah J. Maas
Chaol, she said again. Oh, she was going to vomit. -- Sarah J. Maas
We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan was watching Chaol as if he might be dinner. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't you ever do anything other than read? said Chaol. -- Sarah J. Maas
She pulled off the ring. So that was what he wanted. I honestly expected something grander. -- Sarah J. Maas
Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands. -- Sarah J. Maas
She didn't fear the night, though she found little comfort in its dark hours. It was the time when she slept, the time when she stalked and killed, the time when the stars emerged with glittering beauty and made her feel wonderfully small and insignificant. -- Sarah J. Maas
Find the evil in the castle ... But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it. -- Sarah J. Maas
All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. -- Sarah J. Maas
Manon smirked at Lorcan. "Your claim on her, male, is at the very bottom of the list. -- Sarah J. Maas
You touch him again," Manon said, "and I'll drink the marrow from your bones. -- Sarah J. Maas
You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. -- Sarah J. Maas
There you are. I've been looking for you.
His first words to me - not a lie at all, not a threat to keep those faeries away.
Thank you for finding her for me. -- Sarah J. Maas
She traced a finger over a splotch of fuchsia silk on her dress. All those books, with no one to read them. -- Sarah J. Maas
For him, I had done this-for him I'd gladly wrecked myself and my immortal soul.
And now I had an eternity to live with it. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was hard to care, she realized as she started the trek back to the castle. Incredibly hard to care, when you didn't have anyone left to care about. -- Sarah J. Maas
How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness? -- Sarah J. Maas
Then I would have torn apart the world to get you back. A -- Sarah J. Maas
She was incredible now, so fast he had difficulty keeping up with her. -- Sarah J. Maas
It'd just been a relief to think that for a moment he might have been as lonely as me. -- Sarah J. Maas
And Manon understood in that moment that there were forces greater than obedience, and discipline, and brutality. Understood that she had not been born soulless; she had not been born without a heart.
For there were both, begging her not to swing that blade. -- Sarah J. Maas
Beauty didn't mean anything in the forest. -- Sarah J. Maas
He smiled for a heartbeat longer. I had never seen anyone so handsome-and never had so many warning bells pealed in my head because of it. -- Sarah J. Maas
And so Tamlin unwittingly led the High Lady of the Night Court into the heart of his territory. -- Sarah J. Maas
Elena hated them, then.
Hated the gods who had demanded this. Hated herself. Hated that this was asked, all these bright lights . . . -- Sarah J. Maas
She's your mate, Amren bit at me, not your spy go get her. She is my mate and my spy, I said too quietly. And she is the high lady of the night court. Not a consort,not wife. Feyre is high lady of the night court, my equal in every way. -- Sarah J. Maas
When do you come home to me? -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't you - you don't want your own space?"
"No," he said baldly. "Unless you do. I need you protecting me from our enemies with your water-wolves. -- Sarah J. Maas
Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away.
She must do what was necessary to save the crown - and her future. -- Sarah J. Maas
Not flowers - never flowers in Terrasen. Instead, they carried small stones to graves to mark their visits, to tell the dead that they still remembered. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Queen of Terrasen was in a fighting pit in the slums of Rifthold. -- Sarah J. Maas
And at long last, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius was home. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, knew the time would soon come to prove just how much she'd bleed for Erilea. -- Sarah J. Maas
My name is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius. And I am the Queen of Terrasen. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion touched her shoulder. Welcome home, Aelin. -- Sarah J. Maas
Unleashing a cry that set the world trembling, Prince Rowan Whitethorn Galathynius, Consort of the Queen of Terrasen, began the hunt to find his wife. -- Sarah J. Maas
What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end. -- Sarah J. Maas
Long live the queen. -- Sarah J. Maas
Night Triumphant- and the Stars Eternal. -- Sarah J. Maas
She's mine. And if any of you lay a hand on her, you lose that hand. And then lose your head. And once Feyre is done killing you, then I'll grind your bones to dust. -- Sarah J. Maas
It's a miracle the king managed to resist executing you until yesterday." "Tell me he's in a rage the likes of which have never been seen before." "If you listen hard enough, you can actually hear him shrieking from the palace. -- Sarah J. Maas
You don't bite the women of other males. -- Sarah J. Maas
Someone who might-who did understand what it was like to be crippled at your very core, someone who was still climbing inch by inch out of that abyss. -- Sarah J. Maas
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole. -- Sarah J. Maas
Scattered throughout, dwelling as they wish. Just as you are now free to roam where you wish." "I wish to roam home." Rhys -- Sarah J. Maas
But she was her own champion now. -- Sarah J. Maas
The knocker chuckled. Alive? I'm made of bronze. I do not breathe, nor do I eat or drink. So, no, I am not alive. Nor am I dead, for that matter. I simply exist. -- Sarah J. Maas
She moved like a midnight storm. -- Sarah J. Maas
Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back. -- Sarah J. Maas
You bow to no one, -- Sarah J. Maas
We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin of the Wildfire. Aelin Fireheart. Aelin Light-Bringer. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd just have to pray that the immortality gracing her blood would drive off any infection. -- Sarah J. Maas
Leave this world... a better place than how you found it. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I lived in that moment - my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed. -- Sarah J. Maas
I wasn't going to kill him, you buffoon. -- Sarah J. Maas
I like the new scar Captain. -- Sarah J. Maas
There was a time when people valued honor and loyalty - when serving a ruler wasn't about obedience and fear. -- Sarah J. Maas
You are my salvation, Feyre. -- Sarah J. Maas
She opened her eyes and found him watching her, his face a mixture of pride and wonder and such open affection that she could see that far-off land where they'd find a home, see that future that awaited them, and that glimmer of hope promised happiness she'd never considered or dared yearn for. -- Sarah J. Maas
And I'd become High Fae. -- Sarah J. Maas
Given all that had been done to her and all -- Sarah J. Maas
But when she reached in, toward the place in her chest where that monster dwelled, she found only cobwebs and ashes. -- Sarah J. Maas
My brows now knotted. I read the next two words, then whipped my face toward him. "You look absolutely delicious today, Feyre?! That's what you wrote? -- Sarah J. Maas
You'd feel rather guilty when all those poor mortal women combust at the sight of you. -- Sarah J. Maas
Truth is deadly. Truth is freedom. Truth can break and mend and bind. -- Sarah J. Maas
And I won't take a cut of it. It's all yours. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aedion - every breath she took seemed to echo his name. Aedion, Aedion, Aedion. -- Sarah J. Maas
Well, I'm late for something incredibly important, Lucien said, and before I could call him on his outright lie or beg him to stay, the fox-masked faerie vanished. -- Sarah J. Maas
Regardless of his motives or his methods, Rhysand was keeping me alive. And had done so even before I set foot Under the Mountain. -- Sarah J. Maas
Why can't I be High Lady as well? -- Sarah J. Maas
I don't know whether to throttle you or clap you on the back."
"I think there's a long line of people who feel the same way. -- Sarah J. Maas
If they wanted Adarlan's Assassin, they'd get her.
And Wyrd help them when she arrived. -- Sarah J. Maas
All of this time, I thought you were just some pretty girl from Bellhaven who stole jewels to get her fathe's attentiin. Little did I know that the blond-haired girl was Queen of the Underworld. -- Sarah J. Maas
Tell me what happened," he gritted out. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you'd like to unwrap me," he said, lifting the large wicker basket onto the table, "we still have an hour until the temple service. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena didn't move. "Go to hell. -- Sarah J. Maas
He stepped around Tamlin as if he were a piece of furniture and took my hand. -- Sarah J. Maas
I hope they all burn in hell. -- Sarah J. Maas
What are you planning?" "Something very stupid, I think. -- Sarah J. Maas
I would not be weak again. I would not be dependent on anyone else. I would never have to endure the touch of the Attor as it dragged me because I was too helpless to know where and how to hit. Never again. But -- Sarah J. Maas
Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'd walk into the burning heart of hell itself to find you. -- Sarah J. Maas
The library looked as it had always had: dim, cavernous, achingly beautiful in its ancient stone architecture and endless corridors lined with books. And totally silent. -- Sarah J. Maas
There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core -- Sarah J. Maas
Here's a lesson for you Weapons Master," she said, stalking past him. "Give me real men to fight. Then maybe I'll bother trying. -- Sarah J. Maas
Then Manon Blackbeak whirled and brought Wind-Cleaver down upon her grandmother. -- Sarah J. Maas
From me," Kaltain said, in a voice that was dead and hollow and yet vicious. "It has always been there - asleep. And now it has been awoken. Shaped anew. -- Sarah J. Maas
Tamlin didn't stop apologizing for days. He made love to me, morning and night. He worshipped my body with his hands, his tongue, his teeth. But that had never been the hard part. We just got tripped up with the rest. -- Sarah J. Maas
I don't deserve you." My -- Sarah J. Maas
You can rattle the stars, you can do anything, if only you dared. -- Sarah J. Maas
He'd think about that later. -- Sarah J. Maas
I think you will leave a lasting imprint on Ansel's heart. You spared her life, and returned her father's sword. And maybe when she makes her next move to reclaim her title, she will remember the assassin from the North and the kindness you showed her, and try to leave fewer bodies in her wake. -- Sarah J. Maas
We both knew "fine" was a lie. -- Sarah J. Maas
My goal was bigger than revenge. My purpose greater than personal retribution. -- Sarah J. Maas
Witches did not mourn, because witches did not love enough to allow it to break them. Even if Asterin, now taking up her place by the Blackbeak Matron's Second, had proved otherwise. -- Sarah J. Maas
With every breath, Aideon felt that lingering scent wrapping tighter around his heart and soul. When she came back, he was never letting her go. -- Sarah J. Maas
You look more of less the same."
She strode right past him. "And you still look like a jackass," she said sweetly. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had often wished for adventure, for old spells and wicked kings. -- Sarah J. Maas
I was told to come to this temple. I found it occupied. So I unoccupied it. You're welcome. -- Sarah J. Maas
To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed. -- Sarah J. Maas
And she wondered if it were possible to love someone enough to die from it. If it were possible to love someone enough that time and distance and death were of no concern. -- Sarah J. Maas
Hw would probably have been even more scandalised to learn I'm not wearing any undergarments beneath this dress.' - Aelin Ashrvyer Galathynius -- Sarah J. Maas
For hers was not a story of darkness. -- Sarah J. Maas
Sam probably folded his undergarments. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin was no savior to rally behind, but a cataclysm to be weathered. -- Sarah J. Maas
You do not fear. You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again. -- Sarah J. Maas
Silently, she began to recite the names of her dead. And as the overseer raised his whip, she added her name to the end of that list and swung her ax into his gut. -- Sarah J. Maas
Why would a pretty thing like that marry a guard? -- Sarah J. Maas
You're remarkably judgmental."
"What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgments?"
"What's the point in having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgments of your mind? -- Sarah J. Maas
Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them. -- Sarah J. Maas
Men didn't build more armies and forge more weapons without having plans to use them. -- Sarah J. Maas
Sam stared at her long enough for heat to flood her cheek, as if he could see right inside of her-see everything. The fact that he didn't turn away from whatever he saw made her blood thrum through her veins. -- Sarah J. Maas
His eyes were open when I nestled my head against his arm. Within the shelter of his wing, we watched each other. And I realized I might very well be content to do exactly that forever. I -- Sarah J. Maas
By the Wyrd Throne of Glass Series -- Sarah J. Maas
For a breath she wished for a shape-shifter's heart so she could shed her skin and weave herself into something else, the music or the wind, and blow across the world. -- Sarah J. Maas
He was aching to learn what Celaena's lips felt like, what her bare skin smelled like, how she'd react to the touch of his fingers along her body. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am old, but not that old. -- Sarah J. Maas
If I'd had the strength, I would have leaped on him and ripped him apart. "You're a disgusting bastard."
"I'll have to ask Tamlin if this kind of flattery won his heart. -- Sarah J. Maas
It is only with the eye that one can see rightly -- Sarah J. Maas
To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. "To the stars who listen - and the dreams that are answered. -- Sarah J. Maas
To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered." -Rhysand -- Sarah J. Maas
Something evil dwells in this castle, something wicked enough to make the stars quake. -- Sarah J. Maas
Despite herself, despite what she'd done, she decided she wanted Rowan to call her milady at least once every day. -- Sarah J. Maas
Where will we go?"
"I hear hell is particularly nice at this time of year. -- Sarah J. Maas
Hatred felt like a strong word, as she couldn't quite hate someone who had saved her life, but dislike fit pretty damn well. -- Sarah J. Maas
I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn. -- Sarah J. Maas
You and this city helped wake me up - helped bring me back to life." His eyes flickered as I smiled up at him. "I will fight with everything I have, too, Rhys. Everything." He -- Sarah J. Maas
Where are we going?"
Rhy's smile widened into a grin. "To Velaris - the City of Starlight. -- Sarah J. Maas
You were always too good for here Feyre. Too good for us, too good for everyone.' He squeezed my hand. 'If you ever escape, ever convince them that you've paid the debt, don't return. -- Sarah J. Maas
You do what you love, what you need -- Sarah J. Maas
That cocky smile widened. "Hello, bitch," Ansel purred.
"Hello, traitor," Aelin purred right back... "Meet Ansel of Briarcliff, assassin and Queen of the Western Wastes. -- Sarah J. Maas
You survived; I survived. We're together again. I once begged the gods to let me see you - if only for a moment. To see you and know you'd made it. Just once; that was all I ever hoped for. -- Sarah J. Maas
My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant. -- Sarah J. Maas
A smile tugged at her lips, and her eyes - their eyes - sparkled. 'Hello, Aedion. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fireheart, why do you cry?"
"Because I am lost. And do not know the way -- Sarah J. Maas
Handsome was a light way of describing what Aedion was. Overwhelming was more like it. Towering and heavily muscled, Aedion was every inch the warrior rumor claimed him to be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Shall I gag you, or are you capable of being silent without my assistance? -- Sarah J. Maas
No animal that massive could be so quiet. But if he was no ordinary animal, if he was of Prythian origin, if he was somehow a faerie, then being eaten was the least of my concerns. If he was a faerie, I should already be running. -- Sarah J. Maas
What happened to Tomas Mandray?" I asked, the words strangled.
"I realized he wouldn't have gone with me to save you from Prythian. -- Sarah J. Maas
For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red, yellow, and blue I'd savored, used to paint that dresser in our cottage. I had not painted in years at that point, had not dared spend the money on myself...But Elain had. -- Sarah J. Maas
But she wasn't in love with him - Otho hadn't said that. He had seen no attachment on her part. And Celaena would never be that stupid. It was Dorian who was the fool - Dorian who would have his heart broken, if he did actually love her. -- Sarah J. Maas
When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back. -- Sarah J. Maas
The assassin flipped back the lid of the basket. The nose instantly shot inward, and Celaena found the strange golden-haired pup quivering in a corner with a red bow around her neck. -- Sarah J. Maas
They were refugees: unwanted and without any rights. Without any voice. -- Sarah J. Maas
He let out a soft, lethal laugh that raked claws down her temper. -- Sarah J. Maas
I began to recognize the trees, the rocks. There, I had stood with Rhys-- there, I had flirted with him. There, he had lounged atop a branch while waiting for me. -- Sarah J. Maas
She stopped as a map of Erilea appeared. Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one's precise location in relation to others on earth. -- Sarah J. Maas
Elegant, feminine, and utterly wild. Warm, and steadfast - unbreakable, his queen. -- Sarah J. Maas
At the sound of the word, she saw a land of pine and snow, of sun-bleached cliffs and white-capped seas, a land where light was swallowed in the velvety green of bumps and hollows - a land that she had forgotten. -- Sarah J. Maas
Do not be afraid of what makes you shine brightly. -- Sarah J. Maas
You will always be my enemy -- Sarah J. Maas
Helion let out a dark laugh. -- Sarah J. Maas
We moved together, unending and wild and burning, and when I went over the edge the next time, he roared and went with me. -- Sarah J. Maas
There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books. -- Sarah J. Maas
They stared right back at her, and when they slowly lowered their crossbows, she grinned. She could knock them senseless with a few heavy books. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena couldn't recall a time when she didn't want to beat in the girl's face with a brick. -- Sarah J. Maas
She knew he meant it. He'd burn the library, the city or the whole world to ashes if she asked him. It was their bond, marked by blood and scent and something else she couldn't place. A tether as strong as the one that bound her to her parents. Stronger, in some ways. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd forgotten what it was like to be Fae, to have one foot always in the forest. -- Sarah J. Maas
We all bear scars, ... Mine just happen to be more visible than most. -- Sarah J. Maas
He took my hands. His callused fingers, strong and sturdy, were gentle as he lifted my bleeding hand to his mouth and kissed my palm. As if that were answer enough. His -- Sarah J. Maas
Heart twisted. You're the bravest person I've ever met. -- Sarah J. Maas
Someone fish out dear Amren before she catches a cold. -- Sarah J. Maas
We are grateful Rhysand," said Amren quietly. "More than you know. -- Sarah J. Maas
Males are horrible creatures, aren't they? -- Sarah J. Maas
But there was no place like this in the world. Not so serene. So loved by its people and its rulers. The -- Sarah J. Maas
I began shaking my head as if I could unsee it as Lucien and Tamlin stepped into the light. -- Sarah J. Maas
So keep your head down, and none of them will bother you. Though Lucien - he could do with someone snapping at him, if you've the courage for it." I didn't, and when I went to ask more about whom I should try to avoid, she had already finished with my hair and opened the door to the hall. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lucien only nodded. But I felt his gaze on my back, fixed right on my spine, as I headed downstairs. To see Ianthe. And at last decide how I was going to shred her into pieces. -- Sarah J. Maas
I think of myself as a fantasy writer. -- Sarah J. Maas
Very well."
"Say it."
"Say what?"
"Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"
She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name. -- Sarah J. Maas
She wouldn't ask. Didn't want to know what manner of thing might crawl toward a fire. -- Sarah J. Maas
When you erupt, girl, make sure it is felt across worlds. -- Sarah J. Maas
This had better be important."
"Perhaps if you hadn't been reading all night, you wouldn't be so exhausted," snapped the young man seated across from her. -- Sarah J. Maas
But it was Azriel who said, his voice like cold death, "Be careful how you speak about my High Lady." Surprise -- Sarah J. Maas
You will NEVER be my friend. You will always be my ENEMY. -- Sarah J. Maas
For the first time in a damn long while, Lorcan had no words for what he saw. -- Sarah J. Maas
The attack, Lorcan supposed, was Hellas's way of telling him to keep his cock in his pants and mind out of the gutter. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was hard, sometimes, to remember to hate him. To remember the game I was already playing. Ianthe -- Sarah J. Maas
Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things? -- Sarah J. Maas
Even as she said it, she wished that she could take the Thirteen into the skies when the storm hit - to train them in that, too. -- Sarah J. Maas
My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am Celaena Sadorthien and I will not be afraid -- Sarah J. Maas
She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom. -- Sarah J. Maas
The Mute Master had told her that people dealt with their pain in different ways - that some chose to drown it, some chose to love it, and some chose to let it turn into rage. -- Sarah J. Maas
I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust - and reach out. -- Sarah J. Maas
The people who had once dwelled within these lands had not met easy or pleasant ends. She could feel their pain even now, whispering through the stones, rippling through the water. That marsh beast that had snuck up on her last night was the mildest of the horrors here. -- Sarah J. Maas
The issue isn't wether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be a poison. -- Sarah J. Maas
He did - does love me, Rhysand." "The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be a poison." And -- Sarah J. Maas
And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he'd done for me. For what I felt for him. -- Sarah J. Maas
I whirled, and through the night drifting away like smoke on a wind, I found Rhysand straightening the lapels of his black jacket. "Hello, Feyre darling," he purred. -- Sarah J. Maas
Loyalty is earned, not given. -- Sarah J. Maas
You and I are going to learn how to fly. And then we'll stain this kingdom red. -- Sarah J. Maas
A white-tailed hawk still flew overhead, and it swooped low to brush its star-silvered wing against her cheek in farewell before it turned back with a sharp cry. -- Sarah J. Maas
And when I finished my story, Nesta merely stared at me for a long while before asking me to teach her how to paint. -- Sarah J. Maas
You can't really like flowers." Again those dark eyes shifted to her. Blinked once. I most certainly do, he seemed to say. She -- Sarah J. Maas
If you're a monster, I'm a monster, he said with a grin broad enough to show off his elongated canines. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena Sardothien, arrogant and brave and skilled, Celaena who did not know fear or despair, Celaena who was a weapon hones by Death. -- Sarah J. Maas
The game had been played, and she had lost. -- Sarah J. Maas
It is not such a hard thing, is it - to die for your friends. -- Sarah J. Maas
Adarlan could take their freedom, it could destroy their lives and beat and whip them, it could force them into ridiculous contests, but, criminal or not, they were stil human. Dying - rather than playing in the king's game - was the only choice left to him. -- Sarah J. Maas
When she returns," Aedion said quietly, "what she will do to the King of Adarlan will make the slaughtering ten years ago look merciful." And in his heart, Aedion hoped he spoke true. -- Sarah J. Maas
Then Celaena and the King of Adarlan smiled at each other, and it was the most terrifying thing Dorian had ever seen. -- Sarah J. Maas
His name was Dorian.
Dorian Havillard, and he was the Crown Prince of Adarlan. -- Sarah J. Maas
The occasional solo of the whip added to the symphony of brutality Adarlan had created for its greatest criminals, poorest citizens, and latest conquests. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her beauty was a weapon - one she kept honed - but it could also be a vulnerability. Arobynn -- Sarah J. Maas
Against slavery, against tyranny, I would gladly go to my death, no matter whose freedom I was defending. -- Sarah J. Maas
All those years, what I did for them ... And they didn't try to stop you from taking me. There it was, the giant pain that cracked me in two if I thought about it too long. -- Sarah J. Maas
You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That's what scares you most. -- Sarah J. Maas
This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't get pissy because I out-stealthed you. -- Sarah J. Maas
Figure - tell me you like chocolates. You do, right? I remember stealing a box from your room once when you were out killing someone. They were delicious. -- Sarah J. Maas
Females and males watched Rhysand throughout the hall - and the shadowsinger and I made a game of betting on who, exactly, would work up the nerve to invite the High Lord home. -- Sarah J. Maas
Your scent says that you don't want to be approached. The males smell it more than the females, and have been staying the hell away. They don't want their faces clawed off. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had seen hundreds of doors in the castle - doors of wood, of bronze, of glass - but never one of solid iron. This one was ancient, from a time when an iron door meant something. So was this supposed to keep someone out - or to keep something in? Celaena -- Sarah J. Maas
What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements? -- Sarah J. Maas
As she reached into her cloak for her own hidden dagger, she realized he might have been handsome were it not for the promise of violence in his pine-green eyes. -- Sarah J. Maas
Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you. -- Sarah J. Maas
The curving stones of the gateway loomed, and she drew the sword from her back with her right hand, her left hand enveloped in flame. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rhys's lip pulled back from his teeth. "I dare you." Temper - he had to be in some mood today to let his temper show this much. Good. That made two of us. I flung my other shoe right at his head, as swift and hard as the first one. His -- Sarah J. Maas
Manon Blackbeak awoke to the sighing of leaves, the distant call of wary birds, and the reek of loam and ancient wood. She -- Sarah J. Maas
So you, Granddaughter, will not die for this. But one of your Thirteen will." For -- Sarah J. Maas
Not realizing that I craved his warmth, his nearness, until he was gone. -- Sarah J. Maas
If the Valg craved the sunshine of Erilea, then she would give it to them. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rhysand laughed - a lover's laugh, low and soft and intimate. "Is that any way to speak to a High Lord of Prythian?" My -- Sarah J. Maas
Love won't feed a hungry belly -- Sarah J. Maas
At least if you're going to hell," he said, the vibrations in his chest rumbling against her, "then we'll be there together. -- Sarah J. Maas
He saw her face each time he closed his eyes. She haunted his thoughts, made him wish to do grand and wonderful things in her name, made him want to be a man who deserved to wear a crown. -- Sarah J. Maas
If Rhysand was Night Triumphant, I was the star that only glowed thanks to his darkness, the light only visible because of him. I -- Sarah J. Maas
Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips. She took his face in her hands, finding his eyes blazing, his breathing as ragged as her own -- Sarah J. Maas
Because from the moment he'd pulled her out of that mine in Endovier and she had set those eyes upon him, still fierce despite a year in hell, he'd been walking toward this, walking to her. -- Sarah J. Maas
I glanced at my mate- the male who had always presented me with a choice not as a gift, but as my own gods-given right. -- Sarah J. Maas
Come on, Feyre. We don't bite. Unless you ask us to. -- Sarah J. Maas
All Rowan now had to offer his queen were the strength of his sword, the depth of his magic, and the loyalty of his heart.
Such things did not win wars. -- Sarah J. Maas
She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her. -- Sarah J. Maas
Even from the distance, the captain's eyes locked onto Aelin's.
He didn't smile. -- Sarah J. Maas
But in the hours since they'd saved our asses and turned the tide of the battle, I had not spotted either of my brothers amongst the living. Did not know if Cassian or Azriel had even fought on the plain. -- Sarah J. Maas
I wondered who killed Yellowlegs. -- Sarah J. Maas
That was why the leather baldric bore no weapons: why use them when you were a weapon yourself? -- Sarah J. Maas
I love you," I said, and stabbed him. -- Sarah J. Maas
This would be her first ball where she wasn't there to kill someone. -- Sarah J. Maas
Nesta looked at the king with death twining around his hands, then down at Cassian. And covered Cassian's body with her own. Cassian went still - then his hand slid over her back. Together. They'd go together. -- Sarah J. Maas
You can either let it wreck you, let it get you killed like it nearly did with the Weaver, or you can learn to live with it. -- Sarah J. Maas
And wolves of water broke from behind me. The soldiers whirled, fleeing. But my wolves were faster. I was faster as I ran with them, in the heart of the pack. Wolf after wolf roared out of the Sidra, as colossal as the one I had once killed, pouring into the streets, racing upward. I -- Sarah J. Maas
I ever needed them. He'd taken my weapons, -- Sarah J. Maas
She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall.
But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. -- Sarah J. Maas
She could forgive the girl who had needed a captain of the guard to offer stability after a year in hell; forgive the girl who had needed a captain to be her champion. But she was her own champion now. -- Sarah J. Maas
I read what I like. -- Sarah J. Maas
She wriggled the demon's fingers a bit more. "It'd make a good back-scratcher." Rowan only frowned. "Killjoy," she said, and chucked the arm onto the torso of the Wyrdhound. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rowan's always looking for an excuse to show off. Dramatic rescues give him purpose and fulfillment in his dull, immortal life." There -- Sarah J. Maas
Hello, Sam," she breathed onto the river breeze. -- Sarah J. Maas
Pity those who don't feel anything at all. -- Sarah J. Maas
Isn't that what all human women wish for? A handsome faerie lord to wed and shower them with riches for the rest of their lives? -- Sarah J. Maas
Punish them all. -- Sarah J. Maas
Just a glen." Behind us, Lucien snorted. "Do you like it?" Tamlin asked quickly. -- Sarah J. Maas
They might be vicious, but they're not invincible. -- Sarah J. Maas
Perhaps there was an unstoppable magic inherent in music and art. -- Sarah J. Maas
It'd make a good back-scratcher. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're a little taller than I'd imagined, but no one's perfect. -- Sarah J. Maas
Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stay the course, but also plot another one. Adapt. -- Sarah J. Maas
They key was not to panic-panic made you stupid. Panic got you killed. -- Sarah J. Maas
He values loyalty, cunning, compassion. -- Sarah J. Maas
Kaltain Rompier had just turned the tide of this war.
Dorian had never been more ashamed of himself.
He should have been better. Should have seen better. They all should have. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was not becoming anything different from what she always was and always had the capacity to be. You just finally saw everything. And once you saw that other part of her ... You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept. -- Sarah J. Maas
Farran is a monster," Sam said, not looking at her. "You said so yourself. And if anything goes wrong, the last place I want you to be is in his hands. -- Sarah J. Maas
I've been living with Mor for five hundred years. I've learned the hard way not to question shoe choices.However stupid they may be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Only Rhys remained, and I hated him as I clung to him, I hated him with my entire heart - Then -- Sarah J. Maas
Amarantha's court had been the work of a child. The Court of Nightmares was the work of a god. While -- Sarah J. Maas
We each survive in our own way. -- Sarah J. Maas
To escape death, she'd become death. -- Sarah J. Maas
The demons faded, and a smirk spread. "You're starting to sound like an assassin, my friend." "Perhaps I spend too much time around you. -- Sarah J. Maas
I hadn't realized I was a villain in your narrative, -- Sarah J. Maas
She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm going to call in old debts and promises. To raise an army of assassins and thieves and exiles and commoners. -- Sarah J. Maas
He was a boy in love with a wildfire. Or at least he thought he was -- Sarah J. Maas
Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell. -- Sarah J. Maas
Whatever you had to do to survive, whatever you did from spite or rage or selfishness ... I don't give a damn. You're here - and you're perfect. You always were, and you always will be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Let's go rattle the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
Remind me tomorrow to tell you how charming you are. -- Sarah J. Maas
. . . You're alive today because of that training, boyo -- Sarah J. Maas
If she could keep breathing, she wouldn't fall apart. -- Sarah J. Maas
Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you get the chance, teach it to any female who will take the time to listen. -- Sarah J. Maas
You light up the darkness. -- Sarah J. Maas
Too breakable - he'd said of human women. No wonder he'd come to her. Manon -- Sarah J. Maas
If he was truly as old as she suspected, she was likely little more than a speck of dust to him, a fizzle of life in the long-burning fire of his immortality. -- Sarah J. Maas
Do you intend to make me cry, or are you just foolish? -- Sarah J. Maas
A life for a life
but what if the life offered as payment meant losing three others? -- Sarah J. Maas
Everybody is something. Even the most common witch has her coven. -- Sarah J. Maas
My name is Celaena Sardothien, and I will not be afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're too nice when you're wounded. It's unsettling. -- Sarah J. Maas
Whatever you do," I said quietly, "don't marry Tomas Mandray. His father beats his wife, and none of his sons do anything to stop it." Nesta's eyes widened, but I added, "Bruises are harder to conceal than poverty. -- Sarah J. Maas
Aelin of the wildfire. -- Sarah J. Maas
Is your blood as sweet as your face, girl? -- Sarah J. Maas
She was fire, she was darkness, she was dust and blood and shadow. -- Sarah J. Maas
There were few sounds she enjoyed more than the groans of dying men, but the wind was one of them. -- Sarah J. Maas
My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines. -- Sarah J. Maas
Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. -- Sarah J. Maas
I can survive well enough on my own - if given proper reading material. -- Sarah J. Maas
He was instantly awake and alert, leaning toward her as if he, too, always knew where she was. -- Sarah J. Maas
Every time you lot leave me at home, someone manages to get gutted. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lorcan's onyx eyes were unreadable as he scanned her face. And then he said quietly, "I wanted to go to Perranth with you."
Lorcan dropped the shield. -- Sarah J. Maas
I can wait," he said thickly, kissing her collarbone. "We have all the time in the world. -- Sarah J. Maas
Sam was gone.
Reality opened wide and swallowed her whole.
She didn't move from the bed. -- Sarah J. Maas
Inside, inside I had become like that distant sea, relentlessly churning, tossed about by squalls that tore away any sense of where the surface might be. -- Sarah J. Maas
Months of crawling out of that abyss he'd shoved her into. -- Sarah J. Maas
It's a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fireheart," he said onto her mouth. "Buzzard," she murmured onto his. -- Sarah J. Maas
Courage of the heart is rare, Queen Elena. -- Sarah J. Maas
For a heartbeat, the silence peeled back long enough for that question to worm its way into her skull, into her skin, into her breath and bones. And in the dark, she remembered. -- Sarah J. Maas
So she left Rowan in the hall. But it did not stop her from wishing she could keep him. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her wrath became a song in her blood as she ended them. -- Sarah J. Maas
He moved to sniff some white-and-yellow flowers.
A nightmare. This was a nightmare. "You can't really like flowers."
Again those dark eyes shifted to her. Blinked once.
I most certainly do, he seemed to say. -- Sarah J. Maas
Leaning into the breeze was the closest she came to flying these days. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena put a hand against her chest. How absurd - how utterly absurd and useless - that her heart still beat and Nehemia's didn't -- Sarah J. Maas
When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me ... -- Sarah J. Maas
I have better things to do than care about whether you live or die. -- Sarah J. Maas
No one deserves to be whipped like an animal. -- Sarah J. Maas
She lifted her eyes to his face, and found his gaze lined with silver. "Get up," was all he said. -- Sarah J. Maas
Wrong kind of witch." - Manon Blackbeak -- Sarah J. Maas
They have made you into monsters. Made Manon. And we feel sorry for you. -- Sarah J. Maas
Manon's stomach went from her throat right out her ass, -- Sarah J. Maas
I am going to find the Crochans. And I am going to raise an army with them. For Aelin Galathynius. And her people. And for ours. - Manon -- Sarah J. Maas
That's what happens when you're responsible for lives other than your own, isn't it? You do what you have to do. -- Sarah J. Maas
Azriel would likely love Mor until he was a whisper of darkness between the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
It was an effort not to peek over her shoulder. Don't you even dare, a voice hissed in her head. -- Sarah J. Maas
You were worth it. All these years, all the waiting. You're worth it. He'd known the moment she had looked up at him as she stood before his execution block, defiant and wicked and wild. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her voice was soft, ethereal, the sound of a lullaby half-remembered. The songs she sang, one by one, held Celaena in place. Songs of distant lands, of forgotten legends, of lovers forever waiting to be reunited. -- Sarah J. Maas
Take nothing with you, leave nothing behind. -- Sarah J. Maas
Good," Asterin said. "We're immortals. Things should change, and often, or they'll get boring. -- Sarah J. Maas
Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged. -- Sarah J. Maas
Lets rattle the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared. -- Sarah J. Maas
You look absolutely delicious today, Feyre?! -- Sarah J. Maas
Mother's tits, Rhys, -- Sarah J. Maas
I wept as I understood. >i<>Kill me now, >/i< she="" was="" saying.="">i< do="" it="" fast.="" don't="" make="" it="" hurt.="">Kill me now. >/i< -=""> -- Sarah J. Maas
Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court, now stood beside me, darkness leaking from him like ink in water. He -- Sarah J. Maas
We're all a broken, in our own ways - In places no one might see. -- Sarah J. Maas
... Aedion Ashryer let himself be led into the darkness ...
He did not mind dying.
Though he still wished he'd gotten a chance to see her - just once. -- Sarah J. Maas
Her whore I might be, but not without my reasons. -- Sarah J. Maas
Dorian has never killed anyone. Dorian didn't gut Archer Finn in the tunnels or torture and kill Grave and then chop him up into pieces. Dorian didn't go on a killing spree at Endovier that left dozens dead. -- Sarah J. Maas
The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself. -- Sarah J. Maas
Careful, a voice said in her head. Proceed with cunning. -- Sarah J. Maas
What a shame that the current owner of the Vaults, a former underling of Rourke Farran and a dealer of flesh and opiates, had accidentally run into her knives. Repeatedly. -- Sarah J. Maas
It wasn't that she was mad at him for being uninjured. She was so relieved she could have vomited, actually. -- Sarah J. Maas
What about my kiss? -- Sarah J. Maas
Feyre", he whispered onto my head. He made my name sound beautiful. "Feyre", he whispered again-not in question, but simply as if he enjoyed saying it. -- Sarah J. Maas
We need hope, or else we cannot endure. -- Sarah J. Maas
She bellowed the last word with such soul-deep hatred that he felt it like a punch to the gut. -- Sarah J. Maas
So," Celaena said, spitting blood onto the stones, "do you want to explain yourself first, or should I? -- Sarah J. Maas
Lord Nirall's eyes flew open just as the King's Champion raised her sword over his head. -- Sarah J. Maas
We can rattle teh stars -- Sarah J. Maas
Her bodice covered in so much blood that he couldn't tell where she was bleeding. -- Sarah J. Maas
See what you want, Aelin, and seize it. Don't ask for it; don't wish for it. Take it. -- Sarah J. Maas
You are nothing more than a coward. -- Sarah J. Maas
Life is better when you're around. And look at how lovely your handwriting is. -- Sarah J. Maas
She's been a ghost for years now, anyway, her heart full of the forgotten dead. -- Sarah J. Maas
But as soon as darkness enveloped the room, my sobs hit in full - great, gasping pants that shuddered through me, flowing out the open windows, and into the starry, snow-kissed night. -- Sarah J. Maas
We held each other in silence for minutes. Hours. Two souls, twining in the dark. -- Sarah J. Maas
There were many, many debts to be paid before she left Rifthold and took back her throne. Starting now. Fortunate that she was in a killing sort of mood. -- Sarah J. Maas
Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy. -- Sarah J. Maas
Sometimes there won't be a right choice, just the best of several bad options. -- Sarah J. Maas
She looked to the open window, to the world beyond. For the first time in a long while, she heard the song of a northern wind, calling he rhome, And she was not afraid. -- Sarah J. Maas
A queen who owned her body, her life, her destiny, and never apologized for it. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had believed she could love Sam and not pay the price. Everything has a price, she'd once been told by a Spidersilk merchant in the Red Desert. How right he was. -- Sarah J. Maas
Nameless is my price. -- Sarah J. Maas
This is what we are meant to do - protect, serve, cherish. What Maeve offers is... a mockery of that. -- Sarah J. Maas
Over a million? A million books?" Her heart leapt and danced, and she cracked a smile. "I'd die before I even got through half of that!"
"You like to read?"
She raised an eyebrow. "Don't you? -- Sarah J. Maas
Most men, she'd decided, were bastards of varying degrees. -- Sarah J. Maas
But I won't be. Every day that you're there, I will wonder what has become of you. I won't ... I won't forget you. Not for one hour. -- Sarah J. Maas
And what do you now about love?"[...]
"I think love should make you happy.[...] It should make you the best version of yorself. -- Sarah J. Maas
You did not fit - the mold that they shoved you into. The path you were born upon and forced to walk. You tried, and yet you did not, could not, fit. And then the path changed." A little nod. "I know - what it is to be that way. -- Sarah J. Maas
Words had become as foreign and hard to reach as the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
She slung an arm around his waist, unwilling to let go of him lest he turn into wind and vanish. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're a girl?"
"Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I'm older. -- Sarah J. Maas
He couldn't be dead. Not from the dagger, or those dozen pirates, or from the catapult. No, Sam couldn't be so stupid that he'd get himself killed. She'd ... she'd ... Well she'd kill him if he was dead. -- Sarah J. Maas
I'm not entirely sure Velaris is prepared for Nesta Archeron. -- Sarah J. Maas
And then I am going to rattle the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
You are a member of my court. And as such, you answer to me. You are wise, and brave, and a joy - but we are headed into dark, horrible places where even I fear to tread. -- Sarah J. Maas
The world," Aelin said, "will be saved and remade by the dreamers, Rolfe. -- Sarah J. Maas
Celaena had been everything that Aelin wasn't. She had embraced that life, even if Celaena's accomplishments were death and torture and pain. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fight it. We get to come back. -- Sarah J. Maas
Religion neither convinced nor moved him. -- Sarah J. Maas
She had no idea when she'd stopped loathing him so much. -- Sarah J. Maas
They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest. -- Sarah J. Maas
Fate had kept me alive just to get to this point, just to see if I was listening. -- Sarah J. Maas
He didn't smile. -- Sarah J. Maas
A queen- a queen who bowed to no one, a queen who had faced them all down and never apologized for it. -- Sarah J. Maas
I picked my way through the corpses to another Illyrian.
Then another. And another.
Some I knew. Some I didn't. Still the killing field stretched onward under the sky.
Mile after mile. A kingdom of the rotting dead.
And still I looked. -- Sarah J. Maas
Words could be just as deadly as steel. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion. -- Sarah J. Maas
Only once, at the city that had forged and broken and sheltered his queen. Her -- Sarah J. Maas
There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him... -- Sarah J. Maas
Is there a purpose to this visit, or may I return to my book? -- Sarah J. Maas
Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can't we eat-eat-eat, and then talk? -- Sarah J. Maas
He kissed her thoroughly, lazily, as if he had a lifetime of kisses to look forward to. She liked that. A lot. -- Sarah J. Maas
I yielded my grace - my perfect immortality. -- Sarah J. Maas
Marriage is a legal contract
it's not a sacred thing. -- Sarah J. Maas
The silence was suddenly too charged, his face too beautiful in the light. -- Sarah J. Maas
You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're even more dramatic than I am. -- Sarah J. Maas
I will always find you, too, Lorcan. -- Sarah J. Maas
I needed not to be dead when I agreed."
"You needed not to be alone. -- Sarah J. Maas
I will bow to no one and nothing but my crown. -- Sarah J. Maas
That I will bow before no one and nothing but my crown. -- Sarah J. Maas
They wouldn't let her have a butter knife on her table, but they gave her access to this. -- Sarah J. Maas
She never bothered to look down. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was definitely more covered-up than the courtesans around him. But sometimes there was more allure in not seeing everything. -- Sarah J. Maas
And the city would have a library, too. A great, wonderful library. Or a bookshop with a knowledgeable owner who could make sure her thirst for books was always sated. -- Sarah J. Maas
But there are some times when words are necessary - when explanations are needed that mere gestures cannot convey. -- Sarah J. Maas
I didn't want to tumble into that deep dark - how much I wanted to stay here among the clouds and color and light. -- Sarah J. Maas
I don't like good-byes. If I could, I'd just walk out and not say anything." Alis -- Sarah J. Maas
And in the distance, so faint I thought I might have imagined it, a beast's roar cleaved the land. -- Sarah J. Maas
Let these men play at being gods. -- Sarah J. Maas
Roland studied her a bit more, a tad too intently. "Perhaps you and I shall get to work with each other a bit, Lillian. Your position intrigues me."
She wouldn't mind working with him - but not in the way Roland meant. Her way would include a dagger, a shovel, and an unmarked grave. -- Sarah J. Maas
You know, I think it might be very easy to love you, too, Feyre. Easier to be your friend. I -- Sarah J. Maas
But he was a filthy pirate. They were Arobynn Hamel's assassin-educated, wealthy, refined. Slavery was beneath them. -- Sarah J. Maas
I thought of that merry face, the flippant laughter, the female that did not care who approved. Perhaps because she had seen the ugliest her kind had to offer. And had survived. -- Sarah J. Maas
Quiet as mice, quiet as the wind, quiet as the grave. -- Sarah J. Maas
She'd awoken that morning feeling . . . clear. The grief and pain were still there, writhing inside her, but for the first time in a long while, she felt as though she could see. As though she could breathe. -- Sarah J. Maas
Hello, Feyre darling," he purred. -- Sarah J. Maas
If we're equals, then I don't understand why you're still half clothed. -- Sarah J. Maas
He was using his words as chains to bind her again. -- Sarah J. Maas
Yes, the party had been delightful, but there was more to the world than that. Bigger things, more beautiful things, more real things. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am Celaena Sadorthein and I will be not afraid -- Sarah J. Maas
If it won't respond to humans, then it will have to be killed," Dorian said offhandedly, and a spark went through Celaena. "Kill it? Kill it? For what reason? What did it do to you? -- Sarah J. Maas
He winked at my gaping mouth. "I had to keep myself busy to avoid missing you." Mor -- Sarah J. Maas
It's a rare day indeed when someone thanks you for bringing them to their death. -- Sarah J. Maas
She must be a rare, staggering beauty to make you so faithful." Gods save them all. He could have sworn Fenrys coughed behind him. -- Sarah J. Maas
Magical things rarely age as normal objects do. -- Sarah J. Maas
My bowels turned watery. -- Sarah J. Maas
I believe you. And I believe in peace. I believe in a better world. -- Sarah J. Maas
Hoped that an assassin's jewel would pay for a healer's education. -- Sarah J. Maas
A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over. -- Sarah J. Maas
It's hard," she admitted. "To let go of the control. -- Sarah J. Maas
Kaltain flowed into the room, spreading her arms wide, and became shadowfire, became freedom and triumph, became a promise hissed in a dungeon beneath a glass castle:
Punish them all. -- Sarah J. Maas
If you're a monster, I'm a monster. -- Sarah J. Maas
It is not such a thing, is it - to die for your friends. -- Sarah J. Maas
He had lost her. And she would never, in a thousand lifetimes, let him in again. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're free," Mor said tightly. "You're free."
Not safe. Not protected.
Free. -- Sarah J. Maas
I let a little bit of the wolf show. -- Sarah J. Maas
Let them tremble in fear at what they had awoken. -- Sarah J. Maas
She was the heir of fire. She -- Sarah J. Maas
But this is war. We don't have the luxury of good ideas - only picking between the bad ones. -- Sarah J. Maas
When we die," she said, "I don't think the gods will even know what to do with us. -- Sarah J. Maas
But he had no idea what sort of darkness lurked inside her, or what sort of monster she was willing to become in order to make things right. -- Sarah J. Maas
The seven Courts of Prythian, each ruled by a High Lord, all of them deadly in their own way. They are not merely powerful-they are Power. -- Sarah J. Maas
From my shaft it was three hundred sixty-three feet. I had someone measure. -- Sarah J. Maas
He smiled at me still, broadly and without restraint or hesitation. Isaac had never smiled at me like that. Isaac had never made my breath catch, just a little bit. The -- Sarah J. Maas
Up close, though, these warring hues were offset by the brilliant ring of gold around her pupils. -- Sarah J. Maas
Do you even know how to laugh? -- Sarah J. Maas
Courage of the heart is very rare," she said with sudden calm. "Let it guide you. -- Sarah J. Maas
When my mate died, it took me a very, very long time to come back."
It took her a moment to think of what to say.
"How long?"
"Two hundred three years, twenty-seven days ago. -- Sarah J. Maas
You could rattle the stars. -- Sarah J. Maas
Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again.
She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind. -- Sarah J. Maas
She should not remember what it was like to be free. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because I am lost," she whispered onto the earth. "And I do not know the way. -- Sarah J. Maas
You look rather pretty today, -- Sarah J. Maas
You didn't need a weapon at all when you were born one. -- Sarah J. Maas
The world will be saved and remade by the dreamers. -- Sarah J. Maas
My mate murmured, "Feyre Cursebreaker, the Defender of the Rainbow." I -- Sarah J. Maas
No fair maiden should die alone, -- Sarah J. Maas
Predictably, his eyes widened at her beauty
then stayed wide as he beheld the death lurking beneath it. -- Sarah J. Maas
The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you. -- Sarah J. Maas
You're exquisite," he breathed. -- Sarah J. Maas
Elena had just said she had to find it. She hadn't said anything about destroying -- Sarah J. Maas
Maybe teach the others who were like me: broken in places and trying to fight it - trying to learn who they were around the dark and pain. -- Sarah J. Maas
What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. -- Sarah J. Maas
You are not most people, and I think you like it that way. -- Sarah J. Maas
Rain continued beating against the hall windows, a distant reminder that there was still a world around them. -- Sarah J. Maas
Small white flowers lay at the foot of her cot, and many infant-sized footprints led in and out of the tent. -- Sarah J. Maas
And since I like your company, I'll pass on the offer. -- Sarah J. Maas
But that was a lifetime ago. A different person ago. -- Sarah J. Maas
They were infinite. -- Sarah J. Maas
Because I can't stay away. -- Sarah J. Maas
Gods, the females in his court ate more than he did. He supposed magic burned through their energies so fast it was a miracle they weren't constantly biting his head off. -- Sarah J. Maas
She couldn't blame them; the dress was spectacular. And she was spectacular in it. -- Sarah J. Maas
Stones were eternal-flowers were not -- Sarah J. Maas
She's the Goddess of the Hunt. You might be at a disadvantage. -- Sarah J. Maas
You forgot to say 'please. -- Sarah J. Maas
He studied my face. "There are a great many things that I wish to do, and don't get to. -- Sarah J. Maas
You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live. -- Sarah J. Maas