I once lived in fear of other people. I let other people walk all over me just because I was too afraid of the consequences for refusing. I did not know how to refuse.
I just...Leave a note. Or tell me next time.''Would you have let me go if I had?''I do not LET you do anything.' He tilted my face up, Mor and Azriel looking away. 'You are your own person, you make y...
I hold you to no promises. And I will hold to none of my own.
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 no...
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 t...
Hold on, the riders told the world. Hold on.
Hisli's tail flicked to the side as the arrow buried itself in the sand just inches behind her rear hooves. But Ansel didn't dare look over he shoulder. She kept riding, and she did not stop. Celeana...
Feyre Archeron,' the Suriel said again, gazing at the leafy canopy, the sky peeking through it. A painful inhale. 'A request.'I leaned close. 'Anything.'Another rattling breath. 'Leave this world...a...
Fear no evil, she whispered - just for me.
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...
Despite herself, despite what she'd done, she decided she wanted Rowan to call her milady at least once every day.
Celaena was the lost Queen of Terrasen.Chaol sank to his knees.
Celaena had a sudden moment of clarity then, as her hair ripped from her braid and the wind tore at her clothes. Of all the girls in all the world, here she was on a spit of beach in the Red Desert, a...
But maybe, he said, quietly enough that she looked at him again. He didn’t smile, but his eyes were inquisitive. Maybe we could find the way back together. He would not apologize for today, or yesterd...
But her attention was on the prince across from her, who seemed utterly ignored by his father and his own court, shoved down near the end with her and Aedion.He ate so beautifully, she thought, watchi...
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.
But as they rode out of Rifthold, that city that had been her home and her hell and her salvation, as she memorized each street and building and face and shop, each smell and the coolness of the river...
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.
And all around us, as if the world itself were indeed falling apart, stars rained down.Bits of stardust glowed on his lips as he pulled away, as I stared up at him, breathless, while he smiled. The sm...
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.