He studied the warehouse door. “I wouldn’t put it past Lorcan to return the favor you dealt him tonight. He forgets and forgives even less easily than you do. Especially when someone threatens to cut off his manhood.” “At least I said it would be a big mistake,” she said with a fiendish grin. “I was tempted to say ‘little.’” Rowan laughed, his eyes dancing. “Then you definitely would have been dead.
Dorian said, “So here we are.” “The end of the road,” Aelin said with a half smile. “No,” Chaol said, his own smile faint, tentative. “The beginning of the next.
She lifted her face to the stars. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir of two mighty bloodlines, protector of a once-glorious people, and Queen of Terrasen. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius – and she would not be afraid.
He tried not to think about last night – how the brief touch of Celaena’s fingers through his hair and on his face had sent a pang of desire through him so strong he’d wanted to grab her and pin her on the couch. It had taken all his self-control to keep his breathing steady, to keep pretending that he was asleep. After she’d left, his heart had been pounding so hard it took him an hour to calm enough to actually sleep.
A place where... where the sort of people who hurt us don’t get to live. Where anyone, regardless of who they are and where they came from and what their rank is can dwell in peace. Where we can have a garden in the spring, and swim in the rivers in the summer. I’ve never had such a thing before. A home, I mean.
Maybe teach the others who were like me: broken in places and trying to fight it – trying to learn who they were around the dark and pain.
Dance, Feyre,” he whispered.
I see her slipping away, bit by bit, because you shove her down when she so desperately needs someone to help her back up.
Alis’s lips thinned, but she said, “The next time that fool Lucien gives you advice on how to trap the Suriel, you come to me. Dead chickens, my sagging ass. All you needed to do was offer it a new robe, and it would have groveled at your feet.
There you are. I’ve been looking for you.
You forgot to say ’please.
It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. And what monstrosity ruled over it all.
For the first time in a damn long while, Lorcan had no words for what he saw.
It didn’t excuse what he’d done. Even if he’d... saved me-I choked on the word-from having to refuse Tamlin. Having to explain.
Then go to hell.
The world was waiting – wide open and hers for the taking.
That sounds a lot like, ’ I have more secrets that I’m going to spring on you whenever I feel like stopping your heart dead in your chest.
She wouldn’t mind working with him – but not in the way Roland meant. Her way would include a dagger, a shovel, and an unmarked grave.
I couldn’t get out; I couldn’t get out; I couldn’t get out.
War – war was coming. And they might not all survive it.