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“Because you’ve been fidgeting like you have spiders in your gown since the beginning of this,” he answered. Spiders in my gown? If I had spiders in my gown, I wouldn’t be fidgeting. I’d be screaming and stripping down to nothing. I wouldn’t care at all who witnessed it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“You're such a bad influence"
"Only the bad can be influenced, Princess”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Tiny coils of tension formed in my stomach. Part of me wanted to be reminded of what I surely had not forgotten. Thank the gods, the smarter, logical part of me won out. "There was nothing worth remembering."

"Now you insult me after throwing a dagger at my face? You've wounded my tender feelings.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I was the Maiden, the Chosen … I wasn’t Poppy but a shadow of a person who wasn’t allowed to experience, need, live, or want.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Like when I saw a spider, I behaved as if it were the size of a horse with the cold calculation of an assassin.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Some truths do nothing but destroy and decay what they do not obliterate. Truths do not always set one free. Only a fool who has spent their entire life being fed lies believes that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I’m the Maiden, Hawke,” I reminded him – or myself, I wasn’t sure.
“And I don’t care.”
My eyes flew open in shock. “I can’t believe you just said that.”
“I did. And I’ll say it again. I don’t care what you are.” Hawke’s hand slid off my back. A moment later, I felt his palm flatten against my cheek with unerring accuracy. “I care about who you are.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“like an old friend who pays a visit, sometimes when it’s least expected and other times when you’re waiting for her. It’s neither the first nor the last time she’ll pay a visit, but that doesn’t make any death less harsh or unforgiving.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Truths do not always set one free. Only a food who has spent their entire life being fed lies believes that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Would you love to hear that I really like you?" he asked.
My heart skipped a beat, but I ignored the stupid organ. "Would you be sad if I said no?"
"I'd be devastated.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“For such rough, callused hands, his fingers were rather long and graceful. Digits that belonged to an artist and not a guard. A killer.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“You’re important to me, Poppy. Not because you’re the Maiden, but because you’re… you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“You deserve so much more than what awaits you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Who would’ve thought the Maiden could throw down?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Like when I saw a spider, I behaved as if it were the size of a horse with the cold calculation of an assassin."
Poppy
From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“She is my mate. And my spy,' I said too quietly. 'And she is the High Lady of the Night Court.'
'What?' Mor whsipered.
I caressed a mental finger down that bond now hidden deep, deep within us, and said, 'If they had removed her other glove, they would have seen a second tatoo on her right arm. The twin to the other. Inked last night, when we crept out, found a priestess, and I swore her in as my High Lady.' (...) 'Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court.' My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on a throne beside mine. Never sidelined, never designated to breeding and parties and child rearing. My queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury