Quotes by Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“He moved to sniff some white-and-yellow flowers.A nightmare. This was a nightmare. You cant really like flowers.Again those dark eyes shifted to her. Blinked once. I most certainly do, he seemed to...”

“She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her dagger. He extended it to her, it's long blade gleaming as if he'd been secretl...”

“And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.”

“He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment theyd met, when hed understood that the prince was his brother in soul. I love you.”

“When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...”

“Aelin is alive.”

“She had not understood what it had been like for him to live his entire life underground, chained and beaten and crippleduntil then. Until she heard that noise of undiluted, unyielding joy.Until sh...”

“Celaena opened her arms wide, Goldryn burning bright in one hand. Behold my power, Maeve. Behold what I grapple with in the deep dark, what prowls under my skin.Celaena exhaled a breath and extingu...”

“Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. You left me, she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up aga...”

“There was a faint ringing in her ears that turned into a roar. And beneath it, a sudden wave of numbness, a too-familiar lack of sight or sound or feeling. She didn't know why it happened, because ...”

“What Maeve didn't understand, what she could never understand, was just how much that little princess in Terrasen had damned them a decade ago, even worse than Maeve herself had. She had damned the...”

“The magic was boiling her blood. The darknessit would be a relief compared to the hell smoldering in her veins. The Valg prince advanced, and part of her was screamingscreaming at herself to get up...”

“It was the least she could do. For Nehemiafor. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she'd carved into her flesh, to th...”

“She would fill the world with it, with her light-her gift. She would light up the darkness, so brightly that all who were lost or wounded or broken would find their way to it, a beacon for those wh...”

“He'd known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not.”

“She leaned against the stone wall of the narrow landing, a hand on her thundering heart. It was the smart thing to do, the right thing to do. She had survived this long, and would only survive the ...”

“She had awoken this morning and slipped the amethyst ring off her finger. It had felt liked a blessed release, a final shadow lifted from her heart.”

“So she steeled herself. I have never told anyone this story. No one in the world knows it. But it's mine, she said, blinking past the burning in her eyes, and it's time for me to tell it.Rowan lean...”

“They had survived, when so many had not. And no one else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.”

“There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core”