"I love you," I said, and stabbed him."
"Cauldron save you.Mother hold you.Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey.Fear no evil.Feel no pain.Go, and enter eternity."
"Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him."Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all."
"Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else."
"His lips were smooth against my skin, his breath warm, and my knees buckled as he lifted my other hand to his mouth and kissed it, too. Kissed it carefully - in a way that made heat begin pounding in my core, between my legs."
"Fate had kept me alive just to get to this point, just to see if I had been listening."
"Fate had kept me alive just to get to this point, just to see if I was listening."
"Why?" I asked. He knew what I meant, and shrugged. "Because when the legends get written, I didn't want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. I want my future offspring to know that I was there, and that I fought against her at the end, even if I couldn't do anything useful." I blinked, this time not at the brightness of the sun. "Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone."
"You can’t write, yet you learned to hunt, to survive. How?”I paused with my foot on the threshold. “That’s what happens when you’re responsible for lives other than your own, isn’t it? You do what you have to do.”He was still sitting on the table, still straddling that inner line between the here and now and wherever he’d had to go in his mind to endure the fight with the Bogge. I met his feral and glowing stare.“You aren’t what I expected—for a human."
"Pity those who don't feel anything at all."
"To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed."
"Not realizing that I craved his warmth, his nearness, until he was gone."
"If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?" - Lucien Vanserra"
"Not forever,' he said onto my mouth. And though I knew it was a lie, I put my arms around his neck and kissed him."
"A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky."
"As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it."
"In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself."
"Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses."
"Rhysand yelled my name again - yelled it as though he cared. I blacked out, but she brought me back, ensuring that I felt everything ensuring that I screamed every time a bone broke."
"Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn."