“There are a great many things that I wish to do, and don’t get to.”
“If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?" - Lucien Vanserra”
“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 my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When i kill, I do it slow....”
“There is a better world, Nesta. There is a better world out there, waiting for you to find it.”
“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
“And from the way darkness seemed to ripple from him, from those violet eyes that burned like stars.”
“And for three months… for three months I tried to convince myself that you were better off without me. I tried to convince myself that everything I’d done had made you hate me.”
“I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.”
“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”
“‘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 had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.”
“Magic-everything was magic, and it broke my heart.”
“They would remain until the bark ran out, then travel north past the wolves’ territory, and perhaps into the faerie lands of Prythian - where no mortals would dare go, not unless they had a death wish.”
“You look . . . better than before."
Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod.
"And you hair is . . . clean.”
“Magic-everything was magic, and it broke my heart.”
“We need hope as much as we need bread and...”
“Once I’d dreamed and breathed and thought in colour and light and shape.”
“We held each other in silence for minutes. Hours. Two souls, twining in the dark.”
“He brought his lips to my ear. "I would have been gentle with you, though." I shuddered as I closed my eyes. Every inch of my body went taut as his words echoed through me. "I would have had you moaning my name throughout it all. And I would have taken a very, very long time, Feyre.”
“Never again.
Never again would she be weak.
Never again would she be at someone’s mercy.
Never again would she fail.
Never again, never again, never again.”
“I stepped out of the shelter of my savior’s arm and turned to thank him. Standing before me was the most beautiful man I’d ever seen.”
“Fear had frozen her, blanketing her mind, and she'd let it do so, let it master her, so that by the time her father's neck snapped, it had been too late.”
“Because when the legends get written, I didn’t want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines.”
“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
“Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.”
“I am the rock against which the surf crashes. Nothing can break me.”
“My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.”
“Don’t feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
“‘Make it go away,’ I said, and he laughed. ‘You humans are truly grateful creatures, aren’t you?‘”
“But I gave myself again to that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
“Because when the legends get written, I didn’t want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines.”
“The quickest way to a man's heart is through the fourth and fifth ribs.”
“But I still don’t know how to fix myself.”
“There’s nothing broken to be fixed,” he said fiercely.”
“I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.”
“You do not fear... You do not falter. You do not yield.”
“I came to claim the one I love.”
“She wished he would. Wished someone would cut the damned thing from her chest. Wished someone would smother the voice that whispered of every horrible thing she had ever done, every awful thought she'd had, every person she failed.”
“Because your human joy fascinates me- the way you experience things, in your life span, so wildly and deeply and all at once is ... entrancing.”
“Do you lie awake at night to come up with all you witty replies for the following day?”
“The familiar male's gaze snagged on her. "What's her business here?"
Nesta gave him a secretive smile. "Witchcraft.”
“They're not going to ask for your permission like that Night Court dude.”
“The male stepped forward, tucking in his wings. He smiled slightly and said in the Old Language, in a voice like glorious night, 'Hello, Bryce Quinlan. My name is Rhysand.”
“To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered”
“There are a great many things that I wish to do, and don’t get to.”
“Power lay in her hand. Death gripped her by the other.”
“Everything I love has always had a tendency to be taken from me.”
“Let's rattle the stars.”
“Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
“Go into her mind to take the pain away," Madja said to Rhys, who blinked in confirmation, the cursed, as if scolding himself for not thinking of it sooner. Cassian looked across the bed, to where Elain was holding Feyre's other hand, and Nesta held Elain's.
Rhys said to his mate, "Feyre darling-"
"No good-byes," Feyre panted. "No good-byes, Rhys.”
“I’m grateful. To have you at my side. I don’t know if I ever told you that–how grateful I am to have you stand with me.”
“And what are you thinking about?"
"Your mother.”