Nor had she missed when they zigzagged between levels, even though the building was a standard grid of hallways and stairwells. As if she’d lose her bearings that easily. She might have been insulted if he wasn’t trying so hard.
After a too-long moment, the crown prince spoke. “I don’t quite comprehend why you’d force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.” His words were coated with glorious boredom.
Then Celaena and the King of Adarlan smiled at each other, and it was the most terrifying thing Dorian had ever seen.
She watched him, her head angled. He sometimes felt that she looked at him the way a cat regards a mouse. He just wondered how long it would take for her to pounce.
We each survive in our own way.
If they wanted Adarlan’s Assassin, they’d get her. And Wyrd help them when she arrived.
The best lies were always mixed with truth.
My name is Celaena Sardothien,” she whispered, “and I will not be afraid.
Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands.
He was done with politics and intrigue. He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear would keep him from her. No, if they tried to take her from him, he’d rip the world apart with his bare hands. And for some reason, that didn’t terrify him.
Second place is a nice title for the first loser.
In every way that counted, I failed him.
He wouldn’t let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that she was still lying beside him.
In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible.
I can’t tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you.
And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to he’ll itself, wherever you are, that’s where I want to be. Forever.
He’d known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not.
You didn’t need a weapon at all when you were born one.
She didn’t want to go out into a world where he didn’t exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her.
Their hands clasped between them, he whispered into her ear ‘I claim you, too, Aelin Galathynius’.