Not Going Back Quotes

“I made you an offer when you first came here: help me, and food, shelter, clothing... All of it is yours.'

I'd been a beggar in the past. The thought of doing it now...

'Work for me,' Rhysand said. 'I owe you, anyway. And we'll figure out the rest day by day, if need be.'

I looked toward the mountains, as if I could see all the way to the Spring Court in the south. Tamlin would be furious. He'd shred the manor apart.

But he'd... he'd locked me up. Either he so deeply misunderstood me or he'd been so broken by what went on Under the Mountain, but... he'd locked me up.

'I'm not going back.' The words rang in me like a death knell. 'Not- not until I figure things out.' I shoved against the wall of anger and sorrow and outright despair as my thumb brushed over the vacant band of skin where that ring had once sat.

One day at a time. Maybe- maybe Tamlin would come around. Heal himself, that jagged wound of festering fear. Maybe I'd sort myself out. I didn't know.

But I did know that if I stayed in that manor, if I was locked up one more time... It might finish the breaking that Amarantha had started.

Rhysand summoned a mug of hot tea from nowhere and handed it to me. 'Drink it.'

I took the mug, letting its warmth soak into my stiff fingers. He watched me until I took a sip, and then went back to monitoring the mountains. I took another sip- peppermint and... liquorice and another herb or spice.

I wasn't going back. Maybe I'd never even... gotten to come back. Not from Under the Mountain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury