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I didn't. My mother gave it to me as a keepsake, then took it back when I reached maturity--and gave it to the Weaver for safekeeping." "Why?" "So I wouldn't waste it."
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And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.
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stars
hope
inspirational
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acomaf
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wishes
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More--I wanted the hardness of his body crushing against mine; I wanted his mouth and teeth and tongue on my bare skin, on my breasts, between my legs. Everywhere--I wanted him everywhere. I was drowning in that need.
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She knew the gold in her eyes had shifted to flame, because when she looked to Maeve, the queen's face had gone bone-white. And then Celaena set the world on fire.
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He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.
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woman
women
woman-and-man
princes
kings
women-and-men
prince
manhood
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Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding.
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To four years until freedom," she said lifting her glass. He raised his in salute. "To you, Celaena." Their eyes met, and Chaol didn't hide his smile as she grinned at him. Perhaps four years with her might not be enough."
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throne-of-glass
sweet
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I'll let Cassian know you're ... open to his advances." "Good," I said."
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I love my people, and my family. Do not think I won't become a monster to keep them protected.
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rhysand
feyre
monster
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In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself.
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tamlin
salvation
guilty
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He didn't understand-how she could be so delicate, so small, when she had overturned his life entirely. Worked miracles with those hands and that soul, this woman who had crossed mountains and seas.
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So," he said, flicking her nose, "how long have you wanted--" "I don't see how that's any of your business, Captain Westfall. And I won't tell you until you tell me." He flicked her nose again, and she batted away his fingers. He caught her hand in his, holding it up so he could look at her amethyst ring--the ring she never took off, not even to bathe. "The Yulemas ball. Maybe earlier. Maybe even Samhuinn, when I brought you this ring. But ..
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With every breath, Aideon felt that lingering scent wrapping tighter around his heart and soul. When she came back, he was never letting her go.
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She would not waste energy missing him, wishing he were here to talk everything through, or to just have the comfort of waking up beside him and knowing he existed. She swallowed
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I was told to come to this temple. I found it occupied. So I unoccupied it. You're welcome.
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It's cold as hell!" Mor called from the front hall, startling me from the warmth pooling in my core. "And who the hell let Cassian and Feyre decorate?" --
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His eyes - those silver eyes that would probably haunt her for the rest of her life - were bright. "No matter what I have done, I really do love you, Celaena." The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd never said that word to her before. Ever. A long silence fell between them."
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Rhys casually released me with a flick of his tongue over my bottom lip as a crowd of High Fae appeared behind Amarantha and chimed in with her laughter. Rhysand gave them a lazy, self-indulgent grin and bowed. But something sparked in the queen's eyes as she looked at Rhysand. Amarantha's whore, they'd called him.
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rhysand
feyre
rhys
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You're remarkably judgmental.' 'What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?
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and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.
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He studied the threshold to the bedroom hallway. "Azriel, Mor, Amren, and Cassian," he said, marking the eyes I'd painted. "You do know that one of them is going to paint a moustache under the eyes of whoever pisses them off that day." I clamped my lips to keep the smile in. "Oh, Mor already promised to do that."
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One last time - you have to wear this mask one last time, and then you can bury Celaena Sardothien forever.
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queen-of-shadows
celaena-sardothien
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And just like that, his father fed him to the Wolf.
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Would you walk Dorian back to his room?" She batted her eyelashes at him, striding through the door as he opened it for her. "Or is this a privilege that only your lady-friends receive?" "If I had any lady-friends, I'd certainly extend the offer. I'm not sure you qualify as a lady, though." "So chivalrous. No wonder those girls find excuses to be in the gardens every morning."
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Together, we stared at our reflection. Lord and Lady Night. "Ready to be wicked?" he purred in my ear. My"
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Nervous?" he asked, his voice barely audible above the steady slice of his oars through the calm bay. "No," she lied. "Me too."
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We came," Manon said, loud enough that all on the city walls could hear, "to honor a promise made to Aelin Galathynius. To fight for what she promised us." Darrow said quietly, "And what was that?" Manon smiled then. "A better world."
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We had contests to see who could write the dirtiest limericks while I was living with my father's war-band by the border. I don't particularly enjoy losing, so I took it upon myself to become good at them.
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The painting flashed into my mind. Flashed-and stayed there, glimmering before it faded. But it remained, shining faintly, in that hole inside my chest. The hole that was slowly starting to heal over.
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I'd always thought death would be some sort of peaceful homecoming - a sweet, sad lullaby to usher me into whatever waited afterward.
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Borte had gone back to studying the Fae males. Not their considerable beauty, but their size, their pointed ears, their weapons and elongated canines. Aelin whispered conspiratorially to the girl, "Make them roll over before you offer them a treat."
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She didn't know how long they stood on that roof, tangled up in each other, mouths and hands roving until she moaned and dragged him through the greenhouse, down the stairs, and into the carriage waiting outside. And then there was the ride home, where he did things to her neck and ear that made her forget her own name. They managed to straighten themselves out as they reached the castle gates, and kept a respectable distance as they walked..
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The stag's enormous head turned slightly--toward the wagon, toward the small window. The Lord of the North. So the people of Terrasen will always know how to find their way home, she'd once told Ansel as they lay under a blanket of stars and traced the constellation of the stag. So they can look up at the sky, no matter where they are, and know Terrasen is forever with them.
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terrasen
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I'm thinking that I must have been a fool in love to allow myself to be shown so little of the Spring Court. I'm thinking there's a great deal of that territory I was never allowed to see or hear about and maybe I would have lived in ignorance forever like some pet. I'm thinking . . . I'm thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety. And I'm ..
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Well, good-bye for now," he said, rolling his neck as if we hadn't been talking about anything important at all. He bowed at the waist, those wings vanishing entirely, and had begun to fade into the nearest shadow when he went rigid. His eyes locked on mine, wide and wild, and his nostrils flared. Shock - pure shock flashed across his features at whatever he saw on my face, and he stumbled back a step. Actually stumbled. "What is -" I began..
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rhysand
shocked
rhys
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She wouldn't leave him like this, in this cold, dark room. She yanked out of Arobynn's grasp. Wordlessly, she unfastened her cloak and spread it over Sam, covering the damage that had been so carefully inflicted. She climbed onto the wooden table and lay out beside him, stretching an arm across his middle, holding him close. The body still smelled faintly like Sam. And like the cheap soap she'd made him use, because she was so selfish that ..
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He himself was a beautiful weapon, forged by centuries of ruthless training and warring.
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You might fight well, but your manners are a disgrace." "I can act and talk like a lady, if it pleases me."
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As the memory of that day echoed through her, she remembered the words Sam kept screaming at Arobynn, as the King of the Assassins beat her, the words that she'd somehow forgotten in the fog of pain: I'll kill you! Sam had said it like he meant it. He'd bellowed it, again and again and again...
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A protector--that's who he was, and would always be. What I had wanted when I was cold and hard and joyless; what I had needed to melt the ice of bitter years on the cusp of starvation. I didn't have the nerve to wonder what I wanted or needed now. Who I had become.
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Just be careful." "You keep saying that." "Is there something wrong with saying it?" "Yes, there is! I'm not some silly fool who can't protect herself or her head!" "Did I ever imply that?" "No, but you keep saying 'be careful' and telling me how you worry, and insisting you help me with things, and--" "Because I do worry!" "Well, you shouldn't! I'm just as capable of looking after myself as you are!" "Believe me, Celaena, I know you can lo..
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He lifted a brow. "Is it that hard for you to even try in front of me?" "You're a High Lord - don't you have better things to do?" "Of course. But none as enjoyable as seeing you squirm." "You're a real bastard, you know that?" Rhys huffed a laugh. "I've been called worse. In fact, I think you've called me worse."
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But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago." Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could." Every person in the hall held their breath." --
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bravery
king-of-adarlan
insolence
petulance
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I want you to know," she whispered to the wind, to the earth, to the body far beneath her, "that you were right. You were right. I am a coward. And I have been running for so long that I've forgotten what it is to stand and fight."
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