Elisa Lanzer

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Perhaps not right away, but if you believe one would benefit the city, the country, then do it. Artists are essential.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“When forgotten blood on heartstone falls, then shall the chains be broke,” she crooned. “Life for life, old debt requires, or eternal be his yoke.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“The music broke her apart and put her back together, only to rend her asunder again and again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade