" What if I tell you what the rock and darkness and sea and beyond whispered to me, Lord of Bloodshed? How they shuddered in fear, on that island across the sea. How they trembled when she emerged. She took something—something precious. She ripped it out with her teeth. What came out was not what went in. "

― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)