Melissa de la Cruz · 227 pages
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“I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.”
“You may be able to call up an entire
encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain
with no heart and no reasoning”
“Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.”
“All he had to do was love her, and he could do that. -Kingsley”
“Lucifer, the most beautiful angel of all time,became so enamored with his own beauty and power that he came to believe his light was greater than the Almighty...”
“I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have." -Schuyler”
“I love her because she has become something more to me. She has become my life. -Jack”
“So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack”
“There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.”
“It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.”
“Don't worry my love, we shall have our vengeance. I promise it." -Jack”
“I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together.”
“She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back...so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan”
“Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now...”
“I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!”
“I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.”
“Heart of the Dark. Ba’alzamon. Name hidden within name shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret. Betrayer of Hope. Ishamael betrays all hope. Truth burns and sears. Hope fails before truth. A lie is our shield. Who can stand against the Heart of the Dark? Who can face the Betrayer of Hope? Soul of shadow, Soul of the Shadow, he is—”
“Sam smiled, his brown eyes turning golden in the dawn. It was such a Sam look, the twinkle of mischief, the hint of exasperation, the kindness that would always, always make him a better person than she was.
Before she knew what she was doing, Celaena threw her arms around him and held him close. Sam stiffened, but after a heartbeat, his arms came around her. She breathed him in—the smell of his sweat, the tang of the dust and rock, the metallic odor of his blood... Sam rested his cheek on her head. She couldn't remember —honestly couldn't recall—the last time anyone had held her. But embracing Sam was different, somehow. Like she wanted to curl into his warmth, like for one moment, she didn't have to worry about anything or anybody.
“Sam,” she murmured into his chest.
“Hmm?”
She peeled away from him, stepping out of his arms. “If you ever tell anyone about me embracing you... I'll gut you.”
“But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.”
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