Sarah J. Maas

Quotes

• “She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her da...”
• “But they held tighter to each other, past and present and future; flickering between an ancient hall in a mountain castl...”
• “She leaned against the stone wall of the narrow landing, a hand on her thundering heart. It was the smart thing to do, t...”
• “The stag’s enormous head turned slightly—toward the wagon, toward the small window.The Lord of the North.So the people o...”
• “She shook off his grip. "I am what I am, and I don't particularly care what you think of me.” "Well, I care what you thi...”
• “Let me give you a bit of advice.' the girl said bitterly, 'from one working girl to another; life isn't easy, no matter ...”
• “The magic was boiling her blood. The darkness—it would be a relief compared to the hell smoldering in her veins. The Val...”
• “They’d been forged of the same ore, two sides of the same golden, scarred coin. She’d know it when she spied him atop th...”
• “She had a flicker of memory from a time when, just for a moment, she'd been free; when the world had been wide open and ...”
• “She would fill the world with it, with her light-her gift. She would light up the darkness, so brightly that all who wer...”
• “Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they're going so much that it's worth it. Maybe they'll k...”
• “Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us - to haunt our thoughts long after we face them. He would b...”
• “The Crown Prince of Adarlan stared him down. "And consider where your true loyalties lie."Once, Chaol might have argued....”
• “Nehemia was gone. That vibrant, fierce, loving soul; the princess who had been called the Light of Eyllwe; the woman who...”
• “The Court of Dreams.The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born ...”
• “Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again. She t...”
• “The winds shifted, and Abraxos rode them, rising higher into the sky, the darkened kingdom below passing by in a blur.Ch...”
• “I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I...”
• “I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it,...”
• “He thinks he’ll be remembered as the villain in the story”She snorted.“But I forgot to tell him,” I said too quietly, op...”
• “Gavriel’s son was bellowing Whitethorn’s name. A gods-damned victory cry. Over and over, the men taking up the call. The...”
• “Aelin sighed. 'This place has been shut down for months, and yet I swear I can still hear the music floating in the air....”
• “I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wo...”
• “Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. “You left me,” ...”
• “Rhys looked up, his face gleaming with tears. He went still as I leaned in, kissing away one tear. Then the other. As he...”
• “She didn't fear the night, though she found little comfort in its dark hours. It was the time when she slept, the time w...”
• “Some night soon, I'll sneak back in here and we can eat chocolates until we vomit.""We're such refined, genteel ladies."...”
• “A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Bea...”
• “Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, le...”
• “It was the least she could do. For Nehemia—for. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not really. On...”
• “The straw-coated floor crunched beneath her boots, a cool breeze sweeping in from where the roof had been ripped half of...”
• “All I wanted was to return to - to the people around me. I wanted it badly enough I didn't have room for fear. The worst...”
• “It was easier to not have to explain, anyway. To not have to tell him that though I'd freed him, saved his people and al...”
• “She's your mate, Amren bit at me, not your spy go get her. She is my mate and my spy, I said too quietly. And she is the...”
• “You want to know what price I asked for forgiving Arobynn, Celaena?" Sam stood so still the he might have been a statue....”
• “Celaena opened her arms wide, Goldryn burning bright in one hand. “Behold my power, Maeve. Behold what I grapple with in...”
• “Having Aelin help him the first time had been awkward enough that he couldn’t even go until she started singing a bawdy ...”
• “But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorn...”
• “His lips were smooth against my skin, his breath warm, and my knees buckled as he lifted my other hand to his mouth and ...”
• “I'd have my happy ending, whether I deserved it or not. But this land, these people - they would have their happy ending...”
• “Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through...”
• “To four years until freedom," she said lifting her glass.He raised his in salute. "To you, Celaena." Their eyes met, and...”
• “A snap of Rhys’s fingers, and my nightclothes—and some flimsy underthings—appeared on the bed. “I couldn’t decide which ...”
• “Aelin would likely laughed to see him now. The man who had stumbled out of her room after she’d declared that her cycle ...”
• “If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it t...”
• “A life of open skies and roads, of wandering where the wind takes you, answering to no one and nothing? A life of freedo...”
• “With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one af...”
• “He moved to sniff some white-and-yellow flowers.A nightmare. This was a nightmare. “You can’t really like flowers.”Again...”
• “She would have an adventure. For herself. This one time. She would see her homeland, and smell it and breathe it in. See...”
• “Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything w...”