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“My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.”
“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...”
“Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.”
“She had a flicker of memory from a time when, just for a moment, she'd been free; when the world had been wide open and she'd been about to enter it with Sam at her side. It was a freedom that she ...”
“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...”
“You want to know what price I asked for forgiving Arobynn, Celaena?" Sam stood so still the he might have been a statue. "My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I...”
“Celaena knew where she was before she awoke. And she didn't care. She was living the same story again and ”
“Nehemia was gone. That vibrant, fierce, loving soul; the princess who had been called the Light of Eyllwe; the woman who had been a beacon of hopejust like that, as if she were no more than a wisp ...”
“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.”
“In every way that counted, I failed him.”
“Hide from fate all you like, Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. But it shall soon find you!”
“She didn't fear the night, though she found little comfort in its dark hours.”
“What are you doing?Celaena lifted another piece of paper. If His Pirateness cant be bothered to clean for us, then I dont see why I cant have a look.Hell be here any second, Sam hissed. She picked ...”
“I was merely observing; I have no agenda." He looked at his hand, still touching hers. "Where did you get that ring?"She contracted her hand into a fist as she pulled it away from him. The amethyst...”
“He slumped down into the pen, and the puppies immediately leapt on him. "Perhaps I'll see you later tonight.""If you're lucky," Celaena purred, and walked away. She smiled to herself as they strode...”
“Celaena peered in the mirrorand stopped dead.The somewhat shorter hair was the least of the changes.She was now flushed with color, her eyes bright and clear, and though she'd regained the weight s...”
