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.
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 inte...
She was shaking so badly that she tucked her hands into her pockets and clamped her lips together to lock up the words.But they danced in her skull anyway, around and around. You should have gotten D...
I've never seen anyone move like she did, Chaol breathed. I've never seen anyone run that fast. Dorian, it was like... Chaol shook his head. I found a horse within of her taking off, and she outran...
I was merely observing; I have no agenda. He looked at his hand, still touching hers. Where did you get that ring?She contracted her hand into a fist as she pulled it away from him. The amethyst in he...
What's your name? he asked above the roar of the music.She leaned close. My name is Wind, she whispered. And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song.He chuckled a low,...
I have no name, she purred. I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.
You gave me the truth today, so I’ll share mine: even if it meant us being friends again, I don’t think I would want to go back to how it was before—who I was before. And this… He jerked his chin towa...
She felt as if she had been crying without end for minutes now.Yet this parting, this final farewell ...Aelin looked at Chaol and Dorian and sobbed. Opened her arms to them, and wept as they held each...
Rolfe unlocked the door, muttering, This had better be worth my time, and stalked into the awaiting dimness beyond. Then stopped dead.Even in the watery light, Dorian could perfectly see the woman sit...
So Dorian let his father rage. He sat in on those meetings and shut down his revulsion and horror when his father sent a third minister to the butchering block. For Sorscha, for the promise of keeping...
Fleetfoot just zoomed on by, a blur of gold.A moment later, when the little librarian came waddling into view and asked if they'd seen a dog, Celaena only shook her head and said that she heard somet...
He slumped down into the pen, and the puppies immediately leapt on him. Perhaps I'll see you later tonight.If you're lucky, Celaena purred, and walked away. She smiled to herself as they strode throug...
Aelin looked at Chaol and Dorian and sobbed. Opened her arms to them, and wept as they held each other. I love you both, she whispered. And no matter what may happen, no matter how far we may be, that...
And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.
He was a boy in love with a wildfire. Or at least he thought he was
He grasped her by the wrist , running a thumb along the sensitive skin underneath. Then let me call you Mine for a dance or twoShe grinned but someone was suddenly between them, a tall, powerfully bui...
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.
We get to come back, Aelin said, pushing her hand harder and harder into her wound until the blood stopped, until it was only her tears that flowed. Dorian, from this loss—from this darkness. We get...
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 li...