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“The land does not forgive easily out here.
A child not of war, but of peace.
“Only you can decide if you deserve it, Manon.”
Do you think you are the only one who has endured loss?”
“I obey no man,”
Fireheart, why do you cry?
I am lost. And I do not know the way.
You have been very brave, for so very long.
You do not yield.
I was not supposed to love you.
“If you wish to be something, king-with-no-crown, then be it.
Her own world became a cage.
Make it count.
“Is it so bad, to care?”
And if she never returned to who she had been before this, he would not love her any less.
Perhaps the punishment for failing to do so would be having to live with herself.
“How much longer am I supposed to atone?”
“I fought it with everything I had. And it was not enough.
Rattle the stars.
“All this time, I wanted it to be you.”
“There is a better world out there. And I have seen it.”
I didn’t waste it—not a coin you gave me, or a moment of the time, the life you bought me.”
“Why is that the point you keep returning to, Elide? Why is it the one thing you cannot let go of?” “Because I’m trying to understand. How you could come to love a monster.” “Why?” He pushed into her space. She didn’t balk one step. Indeed, her eyes were blazing as she hissed, “Because it will help me understand how I did the same.”
In every land, every battle, he had never seen anything as glorious as Aelin before the throat of the siege tower, holding the line.
Witches amongst us all this time.
“I told you that love was a weakness.
“To be too old to fight,” Darrow said quietly, “while younger men and women die is not as easy as you would think, Aedion.”
“From now until the Darkness claims us.”
“Do not give up on life so easily,”
“Let’s make this a fight worthy of a song,”
“Why are you allowed to give up your life for this, and no one else?”
Was it simply too dull for you, to be revered?”
What a disappointment that deep down, you wished to be so ordinary.”
Was I the sacrifice you were willing to make in order to get what you wanted?”
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