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Dec 30, 2018summerforever rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Here are my top 10 favorite quotes! Spoilers ahead. 1. “When you shatter the chains of this world and forge the next, remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time. I have amassed enough money in my miserable life to not need any more--so you will understand me clearly when I say that wherever you set your throne, no matter how long it takes, I will come to you, and I will bring music and dancing.” -Florine 2. “Only slaughtering men like pigs, correct?” “Their deaths equate to their behavior in life,” Manon replied with a kind of calm that made Elide wonder whether she should start running.” 3. “Then she sat down against the stone, tucking her feet beneath her, and rested her head against the smooth, cool rock. “Hello, Sam,” she breathed onto the river breeze. … “I miss you,” she said. “Every day, I miss you. And I wonder what you would have made of all this. Made of me. I think--I think you would have been a wonderful king. I think they would have liked you more than me, actually.” Her throat tightened. “I never told you--how I felt. But I loved you, and I think a part of me might always love you. Maybe you were my mate, and I never knew it. Maybe I’ll spend the rest of my life wondering about that. Maybe I’ll see you again in the Afterworld, and then I’ll know for sure. But until then… until then I’ll miss you, and I’ll wish you were here.” 4. "I never went back to the hunter. I didn’t know how to explain the brand. How to explain your grandmother, or apologize. I was afraid he’d treat me as your grandmother had. So I never went back.” Her mouth wobbled. “I’d fly overhead every few years, just… just to see.” She wiped at her face. “He never married. And even when he was an old man, I’d sometimes see him sitting on that front porch. As if he were waiting for someone.” Something… something was cracking and aching in Manon’s chest, caving in on itself.” (504) 5. “They had walked out of darkness and pain and despair together. They were still walking out of it. So that smile… It struck him stupid every time he saw it and realized it was for him. … She said softly, “You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. live.” 6. “Chaol spread his arms wide as the darkness hit him, shattered him, obliterated him until there was nothing but light--burning blue light, warm and welcoming. Aelin and Dorian had gotten away. It was enough. When the pain came, he was not afraid.” 7. “They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity. The king standing before them gaped as the shield of flame died out to reveal Aelin and Dorian, hand in hand, glowing like newborn gods as their magic entwined. … A wall of night knocked them back. But they could not be contained. The darkness paused for breath. They erupted.” 8. "It did not seem like a weakness to fight for those who could not defend themselves.” (597) 9. “Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she’d never see again. She took out every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind.” 10. “What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been--what Asterin perhaps alone of all the Ironteeth witches had felt, had learned. “It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me. And that witchling... I loved her, too. I loved her in a way I cannot describe--other than to tell you that it was the most powerful thing I've ever felt, greater than rage, than lust, than magic." A soft smile. "I'm surprised you're not giving me the 'Obedience. Discipline. Brutality.' speech." I really enjoyed QoS!!!