“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...”

“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...”

“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...”

“It was not the sorrowful, lovely piece she had once played for Dorian, and it was not the light, dancing melodies she'd played for sport; it was not the complex and clever pieces she had played for...”

“But they held tighter to each other, past and present and future; flickering between an ancient hall in a mountain castle perched above Orynth, a bridge suspended between glass towers, and another ...”

“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 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 ...”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”