The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.
The best lies were always mixed with truth.
That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort . . . she had died Under the Mountain. I had died, and there had been no one to protect me from those horrors before my...
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.
Such a great shift in the world in those initial centuries, so many working to move past war, to heal, that the wall … the wall became permanent. The wall became legend.
Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.
So here we are, with the fate of our immortal world in the hands of an illiterate human.
So I laid a hand on his forearm, savoring the corded strength beneath, and nestled my head back against his chest. I wish I had days to spend with you— like this, I managed to say as my eyelids droope...
She sucked in a shuddering breath, and he pulled back far enough for them to share breath. Her fingers shook as she brushed them against his mouth, and his control nearly shredded apart right there.'W...
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?
She kept her stare locked on his as she let go of his face and slowly, making sure he understood every step of the way,tilted her head back until her throat was arched and bared before him.Aelin, he b...
She had looked at it that cottage with hope; I had looked at it with nothing but hatred. And I knew which one of us had been stronger.
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.
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 he...
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.
One blink for yes. Two for no. Three for Are you all right? Four for I am here, I am with you. Five for This is real, you are awake.
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:
It was hard, sometimes, to remember to hate him. To remember the game I was already playing. Ianthe
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.
In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.She stopped and stared upward...