As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it. No matter how many years passed, no matter how many times I might try to paint...
Are you Elide? You look... so much like your mother... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... She bought me time... I am alive today because of your mother... She told me to tell you... Your mother told me to t...
Ansel smiled, a winning grin. Half of them are on their way there now. Ready to join with Terrasen. The country of my friend Celaena Sardothien, who did not forget it, even when she was in the Red Des...
Andras was looking for a cure,
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.
And will you come with me? On this adventure - and all the rest?Rhys leaned forward and kissed me. Always.
And who, exactly, told you this? Rhys said with a lift of the brow, not showing one ounce of ire, of surprise. Steps sounded. But we all went for our weapons as Jurian strolled into the guardhouse and...
And when that night-kissed wind winnowed us away, away into war, away into untold danger … I prayed that my promise held true.
And when Aelin lifted her head to survey the cheering crowd, when she smiled, Queen of Terrasen and the Faerie Queen of the West, she burned bright as a star.
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?
And then finally, Aelin sat upon her throne. It weighed on her, nestled against her bones, that new burden. No longer an assassin. No longer a rogue princess. And when Aelin lifted her head to survey...
And as High Lady? Cassian loosed a rough breath. As High Lady, you are mine. And Azriel’s, and Mor’s and Amren’s. You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. We would not have … put you in so much...
And I knew that if … that if I had been wasting away and Rhys had done nothing to stop it, Cassian or Azriel would have pulled me out. They would have taken me somewhere—wherever I needed to be—and de...
Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding.
Aelin met Rowan’s stare and said clearly and baldly and without a speckle of doubt, I love you. I am in love with you, Rowan. I have been for a while. And I know there are limits to what you can give...
Aelin frightens everyone…But not him. I think that’s why she fell in love with him, against her best intentions. Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid
Aedion nocked an arrow into his bow, arm straining as he pulled back the string. As one, the army gathered on the city walls did the same. Let’s make this a fight worthy of a song, Aedion said.
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 playi...
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.
A queen- a queen who bowed to no one, a queen who had faced them all down and never apologized for it.