“I waved away a fly that buzzed in my ear, my hand caked with blood both my own and foreign. I’d always thought death would be some sort of peaceful homecoming—a sweet, sad lullaby to usher me into whatever waited afterward. I crunched down with an armored boot on the flagpole of a Loyalist standard-bearer, smearing red mud across the tusked boar embroidered on its emerald flag. I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all Death’s handmaidens.”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I love you," I said, and stabbed him.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
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