" I wept as I understood. Kill me now, she was saying. Do it fast. Don't make it hurt. Kill me now.”

I couldn't do it.

But she held my gaze-held my gaze and nodded.

As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it. No matter how many years passed, no matter how many times I might try to paint her face. "

― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)