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“the world didn’t need an assassin with a coward’s heart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“And I have been running for so long that I’ve forgotten what it is to stand and fight.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“Breathing in the death before her, taking it into her soul, vengeance and ecstasy mingling at the slaughter of her enemy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Let it be a blade, Aelin. If you cannot find the peace, then at least hone the anger that guides you to the shift. Embrace and control it—it is not your enemy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“She rubbed her brows again. “There is this … rage,” she said hoarsely. “This despair and hatred and rage that lives and breathes inside me. There is no sanity to it, no gentleness. It is a monster dwelling under my skin. For the past ten years, I have worked every day, every hour, to keep that monster locked up. And the moment I talk about those two days, and what happened before and after, that monster is going to break loose, and there will be no accounting for what I do.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Her cheek against the moss, the young princess she had been—Aelin Galathynius—reached a hand for her. “Get up,” she said softly.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“One by one, like shadows emerging from the mist, they appeared. The faces of the people she had loved with her heart of wildfire.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“It would not take a monster to destroy a monster—but light, light to drive out darkness.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“It was so much easier being alone.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“She had once believed that she’d been born to be queen. She had since learned that she’d been born to be a wolf.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“She’d forgotten the name she’d been given, but it made no difference. She had only one name now: Death, devourer of worlds.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“That wildness, that untamed fierceness...They weren't born of a free heart, but of one that had known despair so complete that living brightly, living violently, was the only way to outrun it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Because the dead don’t want you to die with them,” Winnie stated. “Love transcends space and time. It holds no bounds or limits. Dear girl, love is stronger than death because if you love someone, they can never truly die.”
― Alexis Patton, Us Dark Few

“To love is to go on.”
― Alexis Patton, Us Dark Few

“People were more inclined to sit at home and live in a screen versus worrying about climate change, declining resources, and mass extinction across different animal and plant lifeforms. The warning signs were all there. But they knew they wouldn’t be alive when the destruction they sowed came about. They waited for someone else to fix their problems, but it never happened. And here we are.”
― Alexis Patton, Us Dark Few

“The loudest screams are hidden in smiles.”
― Alexis Patton, Us Dark Few

“Pain was not something to cower from. Pain was a product of perseverance. When sweat pooled, tears dried, and blood hardened into scabs, only then did the mind rest soundly at night, knowing every ounce of effort had been given.”
― Alexis Patton, Us Dark Few

“I wanted it in a way that probably wasn’t healthy, but after all the ugly shit I’d seen working in the trauma center, and even before that in my fucked-up teen years, it was only natural that my tastes were starting to skew heavily toward the dark side.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“Maybe it was time to accept the fact that I wasn’t normal, and I never would be. I wanted things most people didn’t, craved darkness and depravity instead of light and love. I’d been fighting my nature for as long as I could remember, and I was tired of it.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“triumph of barbarism over reason:”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“That fire of pure being.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Make me look like a sword,” Isla had told the Starling tailor Leto. “One that’s more blood than blade.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“Wasn’t that all life was, she reasoned, painful moments strung together by distractions?”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“No, Isla,” he finally said. “It’s the parts you don’t seem to like about yourself that I love the most.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“Control was the first lesson I ever learned as a child. Control your emotions, or you could bring the palace down. Control your heart, because allowing anyone access to that power would be ruinous. Control your tongue, because you are not the firstborn, and your opinions don’t matter.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“she watched the sun climb from the horizon like a phoenix, dying every day, only to rise again.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“In the mornings, she and Oro ran on the beaches below the Whitecliffs. He said it would help clear her mind, and it did. She practiced moving large and small objects. She practiced manipulating the dirt and rocks around her. Every day, he came up with new tests, new ways to sharpen her control. In the evenings, they had dinner together, just the two of them. Afterward, they would sit on the floor, drinking tea, trading stories about their childhoods, until Isla inevitably fell asleep. She always woke up in her bed, though, meticulously wrapped in blankets.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane