The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)

by Sarah J. Maas

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be.”

I’ll be honored that you trust me enough to do so. But until then, it’s not my business, and it’s not Arobynn’s business. It’s not anyone’s business but your own.”

She was fire, she was darkness, she was dust and blood and shadow.

So the people of Terrasen will always know how to find their way home

“My name is Celaena Sardothien,” she whispered, “and I will not be afraid.”