The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5)

by Sarah J. Maas

“I just want to be with you,” he murmured. “I don’t care where we go. That’s all I want.”

She didn’t want to go out into a world where he didn’t exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her.

She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. And then she would remember how it had felt to be loved, when the world had held nothing but possibility. No matter what they did to her, they could never take that away. She would not break.

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