Quotes from Tower of Dawn

“He’d almost told the princess that she could keep Hellas’s Horse, but there was something to be said about the prospect of charging down Morath foot soldiers atop a horse named Butterfly.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“I will cherish it always.
No matter what may befall the world.
No matter the oceans, or mountains, or forests in the way.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“A gift.
A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“you must enter where you fear to tread”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“What did Aelin promise you?” Hasar smiled to herself. “A better world.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Gods help him when Hasar and Aedion met.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Using the chair is not a punishment. It is not a prison,' he said softly. 'It never was. And I am as much of a man in that chair, or with that cane, as I am standing on my feet.' He brushed away the tear that slipped down her cheek.
'I wanted to heal you,' she breathed.
'You did,' he said, smiling. 'Yrene, in every way that truly matters . . . You did.'
Chaol wiped away the other tears that fell, brushing a kiss to her hot cheek.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Sartaq chuckled. “I did. But I also told him that the woman I love now plans to head into war. And I intend to follow her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“The heart he’d offered and had been left to drop on the wooden planks of the river docks. An assassin who had sailed away and a queen who had returned.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Here, with her, he was home.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Don’t you waste one heartbeat being afraid of a coward who hunts women in the darkness,” Chaol snapped at her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“The most powerful pure-blooded Fae male in the world,” Chaol said simply. “A worthy asset for any court. Especially when they had fallen in love with each other.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“No lady, beautiful or plain, young or old, deserved to be gawked at.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“He didn't understand-how she could be so delicate, so small, when she had overturned his life entirely. Worked miracles with those hands and that soul, this woman who had crossed mountains and seas.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“We don't look back. It helps no one and nothing to look back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Then it is a good thing, Yrene Towers, that I love you as well.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“I once lived in fear of other people. I let other people walk all over me just because I was too afraid of the consequences for refusing. I did not know how to refuse.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“It was agony and despair and fear. It was joy and laughter and rest. It was life, all of it...”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Everything hurts.” Falkan grimaced, rubbing at his leg. “Remind me never to do anything heroic again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“This was not the end. This crack in him, this bottom, was not the end. He had one promise left.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Aelin frightens everyone…But not him. I think that’s why she fell in love with him, against her best intentions. Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he needed to be. Where he wanted to be.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“You would be surprised by how closely the healing of physical wounds is tied to the healing of emotional ones.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Aelin would have been beside herself with glee.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“I think she was a god... I never learned her name. She only left a note with two lines. "For wherever you need to go - and then some. The world needs more healers." - Yrene, about Aelin”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“It was like waking up or being born or falling out of the sky. It was an answer and a song, and she could not think or feel fast enough.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

“He supposed he'd learned that strength could be hidden beneath the most unlikely faces.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Tower of Dawn

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