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“She lifted her face to the stars. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir of two mighty bloodlines, protector of a once-glorious people, and Queen of Terrasen. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius—and she would not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Time quickens the older you get, as if the universe is trying to push you toward the finish line, to make room for the younger, the stronger, to mark your brief place in history and move on.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“I don’t want to wake up when I’m seventy-four only to realize I haven’t lived.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I don’t think you realize how strong you are, because sometimes strength isn’t swords and steel and fire, as we are so often made to believe. Sometimes it’s found in quiet, gentle places. The way you hold someone’s hand as they grieve. The way you listen to others. The way you show up, day after day, even when you are weary or afraid or simply uncertain.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I want to know everything about you, Iris. I want to know your hopes and your dreams. I want to know what irritates you and what makes you smile and what makes you laugh and what you long for most in this world. But perhaps even more than that … I want you to know who I am.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“The problem is … I want to hear from you at all hours. I want to read your words. I am greedy for them. I am hungry for them.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“Write me a story where there is no ending, Kitt. Write to me and fill my empty spaces.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“I hope you know how proud I am of you, and how I think you are brave, returning to the front. I want to tell everyone I pass on the street that you’re my sister. That Iris E. Winnow of the Inkridden Tribune is my sister. Come home soon, Little Flower. I can’t wait to see you again. Love, your brother, Forest”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“His breath caught, harsh enough that she looked over her shoulder.

But his eyes weren't on her face. Or the water. They were on her bare back.

Curled as she was against her knees, he could see the whole expanse of ruined flesh, each scar from the lashing. "Who did that to you?"

It would have been easy to lie, but she was so tired, and he had saved her useless hide. So she said, "A lot of people. I spent some time in the Salt Mines of Endovier."

He was so still that she wondered if he'd stopped breathing. "How long?" he asked after a moment. She braced herself for the pity, but his face was so carefully blank-no, not blank. Calm with lethal rage.

"A year. I was there a year before... it's a long story." She was too exhausted, her throat too raw, to say the rest of it. She noticed then his arms were bandaged, and more bandages across his broad chest peeked up from beneath his shirt. She'd burned him again. And yet he had held her- had run all the way here and not let go once.

"You were a slave."

She gave him a slow nod. He opened his mouth, but shut it and swallowed, that lethal rage winking out. As if he remembered who he was talking to and that it was the least punishment she deserved.

He turned on his heel and shut the door behind him. She wished he'd slammed it-wished he'd shattered it. But he closed it with barely more than a click and did not return.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.”
― -Dr. Seuss

“They had nothing but the bones of a dead society, fresh immortality, and infant magic that they didn’t understand. And yet, the first thing they did was build a fucking church. Not shelter. Not hospitals. A church. What a priority. I hated it here.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Once we found each other, we would be nearly unstoppable. I was certain of that. I’m touched that you think so, Raihn replied, sensing that thought. I wasn’t sure what to make of the fact that he actually was, and I felt it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I’m with you, Oraya. Right now. You don’t have time. We’ll go together. Alright? I’m with you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Maybe the king always knew that his greatest love would be his ruination. Maybe he knew it the moment he met her. He’d know it the second time he died, too.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“It was all her. Deadly and stunning. Even her hatred was fucking beautiful.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“You have nothing but me,” I said. “And yet, you’d let me go?” “I have nothing but you,” he murmured. “So I am letting you go.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“To the quiet girls with stories in their heads.
To their dreams—and their nightmares.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“I tell myself I am stronger than my doubts—that I’m good. Even if it doesn’t always feel that way.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“To anyone who’s ever felt lost in a wood. There is a strange sort of finding in losing.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Don’t yield, Elm shouted into his mind. Don’t. Fucking. Yield.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“That was when they noticed that every musician on the stage was wearing mourning black. That was when they shut up. And when the conductor raised his arms, it was not a symphony that filled the cavernous space.

It was the Song of Eyllwe.

Then Song of Fenharrow. And Melisande. And Terrasen. Each nation that had people in those labour camps.

And finally, not for pomp or triumph, but to mourn what they had become, they played the Song of Adarlan.

When the final note finished, the conductor turned to the crowd, the musicians standing with him. As one, they looked to the boxes, to all those jewels bought with the blood of a continent. And without a word, without a bow or another gesture, they walked off the stage.

The next morning, by royal decree, the theatre was shut down.

No one saw those musicians or their conductor again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“She was not afraid. She would remake the world - remake it for them, those she had loved with this glorious, burning heart; a world so brilliant and prosperous that when she saw them again in the Afterworld, she would not be ashamed. She would build it for her people, who had survived this long, and whom she would not abandon. She would make them a kingdom such as there never had been, even if it took until her last breath.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“See what you want, Aelin, and seize it. Don't ask for it; don't wish for it. Take it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“You could rattle the stars,
that's what scares you the most”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“At least if you’re going to hell,” he said, the vibrations in his chest rumbling against her, “then we’ll be there together.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“I have a friend. He is to be Lord of Anielle someday, and the fiercest warrior in the land.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“She would fill the world with it, with her light-her gift. She would light up the darkness, so brightly that all who were lost or wounded or broken would find their way to it, a beacon for those who still dwelled in that abyss. It would not take a monster to destroy a monster-but light, light to drive out the darkness.
She was not afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Aelin of the Wildfire. Aelin Fireheart. Aelin Light-Bringer.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire