“There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow... ”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow... ”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“He shifted his arm so he could brush her hair back. His fingers lingered along her jaw. “You make me want to live, too, Aelin Galathynius,” he said. “Not exist—but live.” He cupped her cheek, and took a steadying breath—as if he’d thought about every word these past three days, over and over again. “I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping—not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think … I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you.”
― Queen of Shadows
― Queen of Shadows
“You didn't tell me this would happen."
"You didn't ask. So how am I to blame?”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
"You didn't ask. So how am I to blame?”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
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