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R2Feyre," he said, his voice hoarse.
"Yes," I said. He studied my face—the taloned hand at
my throat. And released me immediately.
I'm sorry he grabbed my hand Thank you
Such pain lingered there-and exhaustion The face he kept hidden
I pushed up onto my knees and kissed his cheek his skin warm and soft beneath my mouth. It was over before it started, but how many nights had I wanted someone to do the same for me?

R2no humor, no mischief
He had stayed. And fought for me.
So I held his gaze. "I never knew Illyrians were such morose
drunks."
"I'm not drunk-I'm drinking," he said, his teeth flashing a bit.
"Again, semantics Maybe I'll send a few to Tarquin with an offer to wear them for him if he forgives us. Maybe he'll take those blood rubies right back."
His mouth barely, barely tugged up at the corner
SHE’S SO GOOD FOR HIM

R2 "To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
He picked up his glass, his gaze so piercing that I wondered why
I had bothered blushing at all for Tarquin
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. "To the stars who listen
and the dreams that are answered."

R2brought her back to her room, and went no farther than the door. I waited for you at breakfast, but you slept in. Or avoided me, apparently. And I tried to catch your eye this afternoon, but you were so good at shutting me out completely."
"What got under my skin," Rhys said, his breathing a bit uneven,
"is that you smiled at him."
The rest of the world faded to mist as the words sank in You are jealous
🤭

R2He knows that I am young—and inexperienced, and he spared me." Tarquin shook his head, mostly at himself. "Sometimes, I think Rhysand ... I think he might have been her whore to spare us all from her full attention.
I would betray nothing of what I knew. But I suspected he could
see it in my eyes— the sorrow at the thought.
He’s so SMART and utterly LOVEABLE I just want him tbh

R2Something brushed against my mental shield a rumble of
something dark powerful
like the dark flickering emotion that had haunted me-so much like it that I stepped a bit closer to Tarquin. And then I gave the High Lord of Summer a pretty, mindless smile that I had not given to anyone in a long, long time
That brush of emotion went silent on the other side of my shields
He needs a taste of his own medicine 😤

R2I didn't realize I'd been waiting for him until the barge docked at the base of the island-city, and I'd somehow spent the entire final hour alone.
Rhysand and Cresseida were nowhere to be seen.
Sorry but I had to stop reading for 24 hours because of the second hand embarrassment.
Also might I mention the fact that the first time I read this, the betrayal I felt is still unmatched to this day. It still stings tbh.

R2He teased and taunted me—he never ... seduced me, with those long, intent stares, the half smiles that were pure Illyrian arrogance.
I supposed I'd been granted that gift once and had used it up and fought for it and broken it. And I supposed that Rhysand, for all he had sacrificed and done... He deserved it as much as Cresseida.
Even if ... even if for a moment, I wanted it.
She’s fallinngggg🤭🤫

R2 Seated at his left, deep in conversation with Cresseida, Rhys didn't so much as look over at me. Indeed, he'd barely spoken to me earlier, not even noting my clothes.
See but this genuinely does piss me off because of all the females why did he have to choose the one that disrespected Feyre that badly?

R2"He locked you up because he knew—the bastard knew what a treasure you are. That you are worth more than land or gold or jewels. He knew, and wanted to keep you all to himself."
The words hit me, even as they soothed some jagged piece in my
soul. "He did —does love me, Rhysand."
THIS IS WHAT MAKES HIM THE ICON HE IS. HE’S SOOOO HOT

R2We all made sacrifices Rhysand said the icy boredom now shifting into something razor-sharp And you now sit at this table with your family because of the ones Feyre made So you will forgive me Tarquin if I tell your princess that if she sends word to Tamlin, or if any of your people try to bring her to him, their lives will be forfeit."
HE DOES NOT TAKE FEYRE SLANDER LIGHTLY👏 MAKES HIM EVEN HOTTER SMH

R2There are things that are public knowledge, and things that are not. My relationship with him is well known. Its current standing, however, is none of your concern. Or anyone else's. But I do know Tamlin, and I know that there will be no internal war between courts—at least not over me, or my decisions.
"I left of my own free will," I said. "And no one is my master."
Feyre is really blooming atm

R2Her breasts are rather spectacular aren't they? Delicious as ripe apples
I fought the urge to scowl, and instead slid my attention to him,
as indolently as he'd looked at me, at the others.
"Here I was, thinking you had a fascination with my mouth."
Delighted surprise lit Rhys's eyes, there and gone in a heartbeat.
We both looked back to our hosts, still stone-faced and stiff-
backed
Such a good TEAM Equals indeed

R2You haven't been able to keep away from me since Calanmai, it seems."
*Something rippled in his eyes* that I couldn't place,
I never noticed this before 😙 so weird he always knew

but he flicked my nose—hard enough that I hissed and batted his hand away.
"I can't wait to see what that sharp tongue of yours can do at the Summer Court," he said, gaze fixed on my mouth
I am EXCITED for summer court jealousies

R2 I had no answer to that-to the tenor in his rich, deep voice. So I examined the tattoos on his chest and arms, the glow of his tan skin, so golden now that he was no longer caged inside that mountain I stopped my perusal when I got to the vee of muscles that flowed beneath the waist of his leather pants
So many parts may as well read the whole book again atp

R2 I'm sorry I didn't find a way to spare you from what happened Under the Mountain," Rhys said with equal quiet. "From dying. From wanting to die." I began to shake my head, but he said, "I have two kinds of nightmares: the ones where I'm again Amarantha's whore or my friends are ...And the
ones where I hear your neck snap and see the light leave your eyes."

R2 . "You can either let it wreck you, let it get you killed like it nearly did with the Weaver, or you can learn to live with it." For a long moment, I just stared at the open, calm face-maybe his true face, the one beneath all the masks he wore to keep his people safe. "I'm sorry- about your family," I rasped.

R2 Part✌️
This close, I could smell the sweat on him, the sea-and-citrus scent beneath it His eyes were soft. I tried to look away, but he held my chin firm. "And I know this because I have felt that way every day since my mother and sister were slaughtered and I had to bury them myself, and even retribution didn't fix it." He wiped away the tears on one cheek, then another.

R2 Get ready for massive quote dump
Then darkness swept in, soothing gentle darkness-no, shade and a sweat-slick male body halted before me. Gentle fingers lifted my chin until I looked up ... at Rhysand's face His wings had wrapped around us, cocooned us, the sunlight casting the membrane in gold and red.
"You will feel that way every day for the rest of your life," Rhysand said.

R2 He'd given me everything I needed to become myself, to feel safe, and when he got what he wanted-when he got his power back, his lands back ... he stopped trying. He was still good still Tamlin, but he was just ... wrong.
And then I was sobbing through my clenched teeth, the tears washing away that infected wound, and I didn't care that Cassian was there, or Rhys or Azriel.
She is so cool and relatable ❤️

R2 And when Amarantha had broken me, when she had snapped my bones and made my blood boil in its veins, he'd just knelt and begged her. He hadn't tried to kill her, hadn't crawled for me. Yes, he'd fought for me—but I'd fought harder for him.
And he had the nerve once his powers were back to shove me into a cage. The nerve to say I was no longer useful; I was to be cloistered for his peace of mind.
female RAGE

R2 I had done everything-everything for that love. I had ripped myself to shreds, I had killed innocents and debased myself, and he had sat beside Amarantha on that throne. And he couldn't do anything, hadn't risked it—hadn't risked being caught until there was one night left, and all he'd wanted to do wasn't free me, but fuck me,
Part one of quotes from the crashout because it makes me emotional, the awakening!

R2I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit a nerve. Az only told me because I told him I needed to know for my own forces; to know what to expect. None of us we don't think it's a joke. What you did was a hard call. A really damn hard call. It was just my shitty way of trying to see if you needed to talk about it. I'm sorry he repeated letting go
The stumbling words the earnestness in his eyes
Nesta doesn’t deserve him idc

R2since I'd last looked, despite the sunny winter day,
they'd removed their leather jackets and shirts.
Their tan, muscled arms were both covered in tattoos. I doubted Cassian was drinking in the rest of the image, though: the stomach muscles gleaming with sweat in the bright sun, the bunching of their powerful thighs, the rippling strength in their backs, surrounding those mighty, beautiful wings.
🥵

R2 I was cold, and tired, and he'd ...
His face turned grave Im sorry held out a hand
I wondered how often he said those two words
"I'm sorry," he repeated, hand still outstretched.
"Let's eat breakfast, then go home."
"Velaris isn't my home."
I could have sworn hurt flashed in his eyes before
he spirited us back to my family's house.
Damn girl give the guy a break 💔 but she SAID she wanted to be informed

READ #2: He was quiet for a long minute. "You were truly born on the Winter
Solstice?"
😝
I highlighted this the first time I read it and uggghhhh it’s so CUTE! One of those nights he was staring up at the night sky in wonder and hope, his mate was born

READ #2: "Thank you for warming the bed," I said into the dimness.
His back was to me, but I heard him clearly as he said, "Amarantha
never once thanked me for that."
Any warmth leeched away. "She didn't suffer enough."
💔

READ #2:
“We were scared, and had received no training, and everything
had been taken,"
BUT FEYRE WAS IN THE SAME POSITION! YOU ARE USING THE SAME EXCUSES THAT FEYRE WORKED AROUNDDDD

R2 who let her youngest sister risk her life every day in the woods while she did nothing Someone who let a fourteen-year old child go out into that forest, so close to the wall Your sister died to save my people She is willing to do so again to protect you from war So don't expect me to sit here with my mouth shut while you sneer at her for a choice she did not get to make
Clock it👌 Cas is one of my favs

READ #2: "I didn't. My mother gave it to me as a keepsake, then took it back when I reached maturity-and gave it to the Weaver for safekeeping."
"Why?"
"So I wouldn't waste it."