A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)

by Sarah J. Maas

Death on swift wings.

me had caused him to destroy his study, then this … I had been frightened by those fits of pure rage, cowed by them. And it had been love—I had loved him so deeply, so greatly, but …

“The issue isn’t whether he loved you, it’s how much. Too much. Love can be a poison.”

You are good, Rhys. You are kind. This mask does not scare me. I see you beneath it.

“Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they’re going so much that it’s worth it. Maybe they’ll keep coming back, until there’s only one

star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday—if it keeps coming back often enough—another star will find it again.”

“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”

“Then I would have torn apart the world to get you back.”

There you are. I’ve been looking for you.

I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song