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“We each survive in our own way.”
“His words were coated with glorious boredom”
“Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.”
“A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.”
“There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.”
“What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?”
“I'm not married, he said softly, because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.”
“I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling ar...”
“I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.”
“Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.”
“He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish.”
“To four years until freedom," she said lifting her glass.He raised his in salute. "To you, Celaena." Their eyes met, and Chaol didn't hide his smile as she grinned at him. Perhaps four years with h...”
“No. I can survive well enough on my own if given the proper reading material.”
“You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.”
“Very well.""Say it.""Say what?""Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.”
“He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.”
“With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew she w...”
“Libraries were full of ideasperhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
“She didn't fear the night, though she found little comfort in its dark hours.”
“I'm not ill like that, she groaned. He sat on her bed, peeling back the blanket. A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help.Then it what way?I,uh... Her face was so ...”
