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“Sunlight still leaked in through the windows of the town house. The scent of citrus and the sea and baked bread still filled every room.

And distantly... Children were still laughing in the streets.

Home. Home was the same- home was untouched.

I squeezed Rhys's hand so tightly I thought he'd complain, but he only squeezed tight back.

And even thought we had all bathed, as we stood there... there was a grime to us. Like the blood hadn't entirely washed off.

And I realised that home was indeed the same, but we... perhaps we were not.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I looked at my sister, really looked at her, at this woman who couldn’t stomach the sycophants who now surrounded her, who had never spent a day in the forest but had gone into wolf territory… Who had shrouded the loss of our mother, then our downfall, in an icy rage and bitterness, because the anger had been a lifeline, the cruelty a release. But she had cared—beneath it, she had cared, and perhaps loved more fiercely than I could comprehend, more deeply and loyally.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I’d forgotten how cunning her eyes were, how cold. She’d been made differently, from something harder and stronger than bone and blood. She was as different from the humans around us as I had become.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“My money’s on yes,” Cassian said. “Want to make a wager?”

“No,” Azriel said, not turning from the window.

Cassian sat up, the portrait of outrage. “No?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight