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101 " Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. "And if I had not met my mate ..." His words failed him as silver lined his eyes. He said down the bond, *I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all of the time we were allowed to have ... The wait was worth it.* "
― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
102 " Helion let out a dark laugh. "
103 " And who, exactly, told you this?” Rhys said with a lift of the brow, not showing one ounce of ire, of surprise. Steps sounded. But we all went for our weapons as Jurian strolled into the guardhouse and said, “I did. "
104 " He winked at my gaping mouth. “I had to keep myself busy to avoid missing you.” Mor "
105 " I began to recognize the trees, the rocks. There, I had stood with Rhys-- there, I had flirted with him. There, he had lounged atop a branch while waiting for me. "
106 " I'm sure you already know this, but you need to actually climb into a bath to get clean - not stare at it. "
107 " It's a rare person to face who they truly are and not run from it -- not be broken by it. That's what the Ouroboros shows all who look into it: who they are, every despicable and unholy inch. Some gaze upon it and don't even realize that the horror they're seeing is *them* -- even as the terror of it drives them mad. Some swagger in and are shattered by the small, sorry creature they find instead. But you...Yes, rare indeed. "
108 " And I wondered if my face had appeared like that—the day I’d first seen Velaris. The mix of awe and anger and the realization that the world was large, and beautiful, and sometimes so overwhelming in its wonder that it was impossible to drink it down all at once. "
109 " And as High Lady?” Cassian loosed a rough breath. “As High Lady, you are mine. And Azriel’s, and Mor’s and Amren’s. You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. We would not have … put you in so much danger. "
110 " I looked ahead, toward that laugh, that light—and that vision of the future Feyre had shown me, more beautiful than anything I could have ever wished for—anything I had wished for, on those long-ago, solitary nights with only the stars for company. A dream still unanswered—but not forever. "
111 " And when that night-kissed wind winnowed us away, away into war, away into untold danger … I prayed that my promise held true. "
112 " It was hard, sometimes, to remember to hate him. To remember the game I was already playing. Ianthe "
113 " Such a great shift in the world in those initial centuries, so many working to move past war, to heal, that the wall … the wall became permanent. The wall became legend. "
114 " ...hope, even when the world tells you to despair. "
115 " What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. The most unlikely person can alter the course of history. "
116 " And though his face was calm, his shoulders thrown back, I said, I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything that I am. His hand squeezed mine in answer before he laid my fingers on his arm, raising it enough that we must have painted a rather courtly portrait as we entered the chamber. You bow to no one, was all he replied. "
117 " He leaned down, nuzzling my throat. “Don’t you want to comfort your mate, who has missed you terribly these weeks? "
118 " You do not fear. You do not falter. You do not yield. "
119 " For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red, yellow, and blue I'd savored, used to paint that dresser in our cottage. I had not painted in years at that point, had not dared spend the money on myself...But Elain had. "
120 " Perhaps she was waiting for me. Perhaps she had ordered the woods to open a path. "