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“It’s the first time in my life that I’ve let the anger fill me. That I’ve swallowed it down instead of choking on it. I was afraid to feel it, because I didn’t want to be like dad..”

“If humans were collectively capable of compassion, we never would have gotten here in the first place.”

I just finished book 2 and am so excited that I don’t have to wait like to read the final book in this trilogy!! I thought I was going to have to wait for a few months.

“People like me don’t change the world,’ said Kissen. ‘We just survive it.’

I’m living for the Pae/Kai banter.

“Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, seeds become history.”

“Funerals are for the living,” said Kissen as she noticed Inara looking. The dead don’t mind what the world does to them.”

“To think that the world could fall to ruin due to the decisions of a single small-minded man in charge—that that was all it took to doom everyone—“

“She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”

“You’re just trying to make it to the other end, and while you’re in it, there’s nothing on either side. Only the way forward. You know, the tunnel.”

“I now stood at a crossroads, and I didn’t dare look back at the road behind me—the road littered with monotony, complacency and other people’s expectations.”

“Isn’t that the point of art—to tame the monsters in us?”

“What I needed was not respite from the world but respite from myself.”

“Freya Born-In-Fire, child of two bloods, we see you.”

*correction*

“Thorns formed on plants to guard them. They were defense mechanisms, just like her own throwing stars and blades.”

*correction*

I love Andarna. She’s such a badass!

“Andarna lands directly in front of him, then opens her mouth and breathes fire down upon him, roasting the dark wielder before she snaps her jaws down and rips his head straight off his body.”

“Violence, remember it’s only the body that’s fragile. You are unbreakable.”

“If psychological framing is situational and contextual, what’s certain is that the medical and psychiatric treatment of those who operate differently from a perceived norm tells a story of discrimination and pathologization.”

“It is the strength of this that matters. Wherever you go, Aelin, no matter how far, this will lead you home.”

“From now until the Darkness claims us.”

“Her mother placed a phantom hand over Aelin’s heart.

It is the strength of this that matters. No matter where you are, no matter how far, this will lead you home.”

Loving this book. However, I’m not a fan of this amount of spice.