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Months of crawling out of that abyss he'd shoved her into.
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But Aelin suddenly said, "Thank you." Nesryn paused, somehow knowing the queen had spoken to her. Aelin put a hand on her heart. "For all that you're risking - thank you." Nesryn's eyes flickered as she said, "Long live the queen."
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nesryn-faliq
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Cassian had named about two dozen poses for Nesta at this point. Ranging from to The latter was his particular favorite.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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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 the execution plataform. She couldn't explain it. No one could understand that instant bond, that soul-deep assurance and rightness, unless they, too, had experienced it. But she owned no explanations to anyone - not about Aedion.
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family
love
the-ashryver-cousins
aelin-ashryver-galathynius
bond
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Magical things rarely age as normal objects do.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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They couldn't break me because ... because they never touched that innermost part of me. They never even guessed. But I hid it ... I've hidden it because ..." She tilted back her head, looking skyward. "Because I live in terror of my family finding out--and shaming me, hurting me about this one thing that has remained wholly mine. This one part of me. I won't let them ... won't let them destroy it. Or"
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You gave me the truth today, so I'll share mine: even if it meant us being friends again, I don't think I would want to go back to how it was before--who I was before. And this..." He jerked his chin toward the scattered crystals and the bowl of water. "I think this is a good change, too. Don't fear it." Dorian left, and Chaol opened his mouth, but no words came out. He was too stunned. When Dorian had spoken, it hadn't been a prince who lo..
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heir-of-fire
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After a moment, his father looked up from the list and surveyed her. "Well done, Champion. Well done indeed." Then Celaena and the King of Adarlan smiled at each other, and it was the most terrifying thing Dorian had ever seen. "Tell my exchequer to give you double last month's payment," the king said. Dorian felt his gorge rise- not just for the severed head and her blood- stiffened clothing, but also for the fact that he could not, for th..
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chaol
dorian
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Most men, she'd decided, were bastards of varying degrees.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.
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Hisli's tail flicked to the side as the arrow buried itself in the sand just inches behind her rear hooves. But Ansel didn't dare look over he shoulder. She kept riding, and she did not stop. Celeana lowered her bow and watched until Ansel disappeared beyond the horizon. One arrow, that had been her promise. But she's also promised Ansel that she's had twenty minutes to get out of range. Celeana had fired after twenty-one.
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celeana
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Sarah J. Maas |
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She smiled at last. And damn if it didn't kill him, the quiet joy in her face. They had walked out of darkness and pain and despair together. They were still walking out of it. So that smile... It struck him stupid every time he saw it and realized it was for him.
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pg526
rowan-whitethorn
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Aelin willed the blood in her veins into black fire. Aedion - her focus was on Aedion, not on the tyrant seated at the front of the room, the man who had murdered her family, murdered Marion, murdered her people. If these were her last moments, then at least she would go down fighting, to the sound of exquisite music. It was time. One breath - another. She was the heir of fire. She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin..
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queen-of-shadows
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Sarah J. Maas |
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The world slowed to the beat of an ancient, ageless drum. Celaena behold the room. The blood was everywhere. Before the bed, Nehemia's bodyguards lay with their throats cut from ear to ear, their internal organs spilling out onto the floor. And on the bed... On the bed... She could hear the shouts growing closer, reaching the room, but their words were somehow muffled, as though she were underwater, the sounds coming from the surface above...
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nehemia-s-death
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Sarah J. Maas |
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The power did not belong to the High Lords. Not any longer. It belonged to me - as I belonged only to me, as my future was mine to decide, to forge.
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You might be my mate," he said, "but you remain your own person. You decide you fate - your choices. Not me. You chose yesterday. You choose every day. Forever."
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a972c61
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If it grieves you," he said, the words caressing my bones, "then I don't think it's absurd at all."
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acotar
tamlin
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Sarah J. Maas |
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bcc24f2
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No flicker of amusement, no hint of fear. The woman could give Rowan a run for his money for sheer iciness.
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nesryn-faliq
rowan-whitethorn
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Sarah J. Maas |
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653cbb4
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surveyed the cabin around me, the surfaces I'd painted nearly a year ago. I was promised a wall, Rhys. A pause. A long pause. I've taken you against a wall before. These walls. Another long, long pause. It's bad form to be at attention while in the birchin. My lips curved as I sent him an image. A memory. Of me on the kitchen table just a few feet away. Of him kneeling before me. My legs wrapped around his head. Cruel, wicked thing. I heard..
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Manon didn't move as Glennis lifted the crown and set it again on Manon's head. Then the ancient witch knelt in the snow. "What was stolen has been restored; what was lost has come home again. I hail thee, Manon Crochan, Queen of Witches." Manon stood fast against the tremor that threatened to buckle her legs. Stood fast as the other Crochans, Bronwen with them, dropped to a knee. Dorian, standing amongst them, smiled, brighter and freer th..
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c8e8369
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The quickest way to a man's heart is through the fourth and fifth ribs.
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court-of-mist-and-fury
queen-maas
sarah-j-maas
acotar
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She just prayed Sam wouldn't get hurt. In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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c8b753d
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Immortality is not as much of a gift as mortals would believe. It can breed monsters that even you would be sick to learn about. Imagine the sadists you've encountered--and then imagine them with millennia to hone their craft and warped desires.
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Rise," Darrow said, "Aelin Ashryver Whitethorn Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen."
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terrasen
throne-of-glass
kingdom-of-ash
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35eba6f
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The Crown Prince tipped his head back to the sky and roared, and it was the battle cry of a god. Then the glass castle shattered.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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ba80fcd
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You are my Fireheart
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rowan-whitehorn
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Sarah J. Maas |
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00baafe
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Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Magesty.
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light
darkness
the-ashryver-cousins
aelin-ashryver-galathynius
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a744564
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I need help. Getting into the bath." "Do you, now." His voice was near-guttural. Elide bit her lip, her breasts becoming heavy, tingling. "I might slip." His eyes drifted down her body, but he made no move. "A dangerous time, bath time."
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Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone." And for a moment, I remembered that faerie who had died in our foyer, and how I'd told Tamlin the same thing. "Thank you," I said, my throat tight."
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rhysand
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c263b90
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The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream.
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sacrifice
friendship
inspirational
price
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Sarah J. Maas |
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47af119
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Marriage is a legal contract -- it's not a sacred thing.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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And then she went to save her cousin.
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He supposed he'd learned that strength could be hidden beneath the most unlikely faces.
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Alone in my bedroom, I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd truly laughed.
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introverted
depressing
laughing
lonely
sad
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Aedion yawned--the lousiest attempt at one Rowan had ever seen--and excused himself.
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wingman
aelin
rowan
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We do not look bad, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.' 'What if we go on only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?' 'Then it is not the end.
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Rhys brushed the hair from my face. "It's all part of the game, Feyre darling. Who to trust, when to trust them--what information to barter." "Do you enjoy it?" "Sometimes. Right now, I don't. Not when the risks are this high." His fingers grazed my brow. "When I have so much to lose." I"
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Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.
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Aedion touched her shoulder. "Welcome home, Aelin." A land of towering mountains-the Stagehorns-spread before them, with valleys and rivers and hills; a land of untamed, wild beauty. Terrasen. And the smell-of pine and snow.. How had she never realized that Rowan's scent was of Terrasen, of home? Rowan came close enough to graze her shoulder and murmured, "I feel as if I've been looking for this place my entire life." --
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home
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fedca69
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Because I made a . A promise to my friend that I would see her kingdom freed." She shoved her scarred palm into his face. "I made an unbreakable vow. And you and Maeve--all you gods-damned bastards--are getting in the way of that." She went off down the hillside again. He followed. "And what of your own people? What of your own kingdom?" "They are better off without me, just as you said." His tattoo scrunched as he snarled. "So you'd save ..
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pg164
nehemia-ytger
rowan-whitethorn
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So she's not with him?" "No." Otho shrugged. "That's strange." "Why?" Chaol had the sudden urge to strangle him. "Because it looks like he's in love with her," he said, and walked away. Chaol's eyes lost focus for a moment. Then Celaena laughed, and Dorian kept staring at her. The prince hadn't once taken his eyes off her. Dorian's expression was full of--something. Joy? Wonder? His shoulders were straight, his back erect. He looked like a ..
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love
dorian-havilliard
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Sarah J. Maas |
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73f7844
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A white-tailed hawk still flew overhead, and it swooped low to brush its star-silvered wing against her cheek in farewell before it turned back with a sharp cry.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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cec7e5b
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She'd entered a city made entirely of leather and paper. Celaena put a hand against her heart.
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Sarah J. Maas |
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Then Manon Blackbeak whirled and brought Wind-Cleaver down upon her grandmother.
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