Acowar Quotes

“I believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is decided by the Mother, or the Cauldron, or some sort of tapestry of Fate, I don't know. I don't really care. But I am grateful for it, whatever it is. Grateful that it brought you all into my life. If it hadn't... I might have become as awful as that prick we're going to face today. If I had not met an Illyrian warrior-in-training," he said to Cassian, "I would not have known the true depths of strength, of resilience, of honor and loyalty." Cassian's eyes gleamed bright. Rhys said to Azriel, "If I had not met a shadowsinger, I would not have known that it is the family you make, not the one you are born into, that matters. I would not have known what it is to truly hope, even when the world tells you to despair." Azriel bowed his head in thanks.
Mor was already crying when Rhys spoke to her. "If I had not met my cousin, I would neer have learned that light can be found in even the darkest of hells. That kidness can thrive even amongst cruelty." She wiped away her teas as she nodded.
I waited for Amren to offer a retort. But she was only waiting.
Rhys bowed his head to her. "If I had not met a tiny monster who hoards jewels more fiercely than a firedrake..." A quite laugh from all of us at that. Rhys smiled softly. "My own power would have consumed me long ago."
Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. "And if I had not met my mate..." His words failed him as silver lined his eyes.
He said down the bond, I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have... The wait was worth it.
He wiped away the tears sliding down my face. "I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to... so I could find you." He kissed another tear away.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“We're all a broken, in our own ways - In places no one might see.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Nesta looked at the king with death twining around his hands, then down at Cassian. And covered Cassian’s body with her own. Cassian went still - then his hand slid over her back. Together. They’d go together.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“But I still don’t know how to fix myself.”
“There’s nothing broken to be fixed,” he said fiercely.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“You do not fear... You do not falter. You do not yield.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. "Always.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“This could be . . . a very bad idea," I admitted, my grip tightening on his hand.
"Oh, it most certainly is," Cassian said with a faint smile as we continued down and down into the heavy black and thrumming silence. "But this is war. We don't have the luxury of good ideas–only picking between the bad ones.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“To the stars who listen - and the dreams that answered”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The stars winked into existence, dim and small above the blazing fires. I watched them through the long hours of celebrating, and could have sworn that they kept me company, my silent and stalwart friends.”
― Sarah J Maas

“The wind whipped away the tears rolling down Nesta’s face at the sight of our father’s ships. At the sight of the ship he’d chosen to sail into battle, for the daughter who hated him for not fighting for us, who had hated him for our mother dying, for the poverty and the despair and the years lost.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I loved you from the first moment I held you in my arms. And I am… I am so sorry, Nesta—my Nesta. I am sorry for all of it.”
“Please,” Nesta said to the king. Her only word, guttural and hoarse. “Please.”
[…]
Nesta stared and stared at my father, who was shaking his head.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Rhys brushed a hand down my arm. “You are, as always, free to go wherever and whenever you wish. But what I think Mor is saying is ... try to leave a note the next time.”
The words were casual, but that was panic in his eyes. Not—not the controlling fear Tamlin had once succumbed to, but ... genuine terror of not knowing where I was, if I needed help. Just as I would want to know where he was, if he needed help, if he vanished when our enemies surrounded us. “I’m sorry,” I said. To him, to the others.”
― Sarah J Maas

“Hybern hunts you because of what you took from the Cauldron. The queens want you dead for vengeance—for robbing them of immortality.”
“I know.” Nesta’s voice was hoarse.
“What did you take.”
“I don’t know.” The words were barely more than a whisper.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“And if I had not met my mate . . . I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have . . . The wait was worth it.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Leave this world a better place than you found it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I have no regrets in this life, but this. That we did not have time. That I did not have time with you, Nesta. I will find you again in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. I promise.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Only you can decide what breaks you, curse breaker. Only you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“You are free."- Mor”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Rhys turned his head, looking me over from head to toe. Then back to Tamlin. A storm about to be unleashed.

But it was Azriel who said, his voice like cold death, "Be careful how you speak about my High Lady.”
― Sarah J Maas

“Only you can decide what breaks you.
The Suriel”
― Sarah J Maas

“I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have...the wait was worth it. Night Triumphant - and the Stars Eternal.”
― Sarah J Mass

“I rose on surprisingly steady knees.
Felt all of them tense, Tamlin’s gaze like a brand as I walked toward the
shadowsinger, my sparkling gown hissing along the floor behind me. As I put
a tattooed hand on the hard, near-invisible curve of the shield and said,
“Come, Azriel.”
Azriel stopped.
Eris gasped for air as those scarred hands loosened. As Azriel turned his
face toward me—
The frozen rage there rooted me to the spot.
But beneath it, I could almost see the images that haunted him: the hand
Mor had yanked away, her weeping, distraught face as she had screamed at
Rhys.
And now, behind us, Mor was shaking in her chair. Pale and shaking.
I only offered my hand to Azriel. “Come sit beside me.”
Nesta had already moved her seat, and an extra chair appeared beside
mine.
I didn’t let my hand tremble as I kept it extended. And waited.
Azriel’s eyes slid to Eris, the High Lord’s son panting beneath him. And
the shadowsinger leaned down to whisper something in his ear that made Eris
blanch further.
But the shield dropped. The shadows lightened into sunshine.
Beron struck—only for his fire to bounce off a hard barrier of my own. I
lifted my gaze to the High Lord of Autumn. “That’s twice now we’ve handed
you your asses. I’d think you’d be sick of the humiliation.”
Helion laughed. But my attention returned to Azriel, who took my stilloffered hand and rose. The scars were rough against my fingers, but his skin
was like ice. Pure ice.
Mor opened her mouth to say something to Azriel, but Cassian put a hand
on her bare knee and shook his head. I led the shadowsinger to the empty
chair beside mine—then walked to the table myself to pour him a glass of
wine.
No one spoke until I offered it to him and sat down.
“They are my family,” I said at the raised brows I received for my waiting
on him. Tamlin just shook his head in disgust and finally slid that claw back
into his hand. But I met Eris’s fuming gaze, my voice as cold as Azriel’s face
as I said, “I don’t care if we are allies in this war. If you insult my friend
again, I won’t stop him the next time.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Służący plotkują. A pod Górą nigdy nie słyszałam ani nie widziałam, żeby Rhysand podniósł rękę na kogoś ze służby. Na strażników, na zbirów Amaranthy, na fae, których kazała mu zabić - owszem. Ale nigdy na słabych. Nigdy na bezbronnych.”
― Sarah J Mass

“- Przedstawiłaś się jako księżna - mruknął.
- Miałam tego nie robić?
Puścił moją rękę, by pogładzić mi policzek wierzchem palców.
- Chciałem to wykrzyczeć z dachów Velaris, od kiedy tylko kapłanka cię namaściła. Jakże to dla ciebie typowe, niweczyć moje wspaniałe plany.”
― Sarah J Mass

“- Boisz się?
- Czemu miałabym się bać kłótliwego przerośniętego nietoperza?”
― Sarah J Mass

“Po tłumie przetoczył się szmer, gdy usiadłam, czując przenikliwe zimno kamienia na nagich udach.
Gdy Rhys zwyczajnie przysiadł na oparciu i uśmiechnął się do mnie zawadiacko, z sali dobiegły zgłuszone okrzyki.
- Pokłońcie się - zwróciłam się do Dworu Koszmarów.”
― Sarah J Mass

“- Póki nie musimy zapraszać jej na ucztę z okazji przesilenia, jakoś to przeżyję.
- Ty jakoś to przeżyjesz? - zapytałam, unosząc brwi.
Pomimo wszystkiego, co się wydarzyło, przemknął pomiędzy nami cień uśmiechu.
- Przynajmniej teraz mam idealną karę, jeśli którekolwiek z was coś przeskrobie. Iść tam na dół i pogawędzić z nią przez godzinkę.”
― Sarah J Mass