Sarah J. Maas

Author

1986-03-05

Quotes by Sarah J. Maas

• Tamlin's arm tightened around me, and he kissed the top of my head. I pulled back, looking up at him. The gold in his eyes, bright with the rising sun, flickered. "What?""My father once told me that I should let my sisters imagine a better life" a better world. And I told him that there was no such thing.— I ran my thumb over his mouth, marveling, and shook my head. "I never understood" because I couldn't couldn't believe that it was even possible.— I swallowed, lowering my hand. "Until now."His throat bobbed. His kiss that time was deep and thorough, unhurried and intent. I let the dawn creep inside me, let it grow with each movement of his lips and brush of his tongue against mine. Tears pricked beneath my closed eyes. It was the happiest moment of my life.

  Read quote

• But Amarantha rolled her eyes and slouched in her throne. "Shatter him, Rhysand." She flicked a hand at the High Lord of the Summer Court. "You may do what you want with the body afterward."The High Lord of the Summer Court bowed— as if he'd been given a gift— and looked to his subject, who had gone still and calm on the floor, hugging his knees. The male faerie was ready— relieved. Rhys slipped a hand out of his pocket, and it dangled at his side. I could have sworn phantom talons flickered there as his fingers curled slightly."I'm growing bored, Rhysand," Amarantha said with a sigh, again fiddling with that bone. She hadn't looked at me once, too focused on her current prey. Rhysand's fingers curled into a fist. The faerie male's eyes went wide— then glazed as he slumped to the side in the puddle of his own waste. Blood leaked from his nose, from his ears, pooling on the floor. That fast— that easily, that irrevocably he was dead."I said shatter his mind, not his brain," Amarantha snapped. The crowd murmured around me, stirring. I wanted nothing more than to fade back into it— to crawl back into my cell and burn this from my mind. Tamlin hadn't flinched— not a muscle. What horrors had he witnessed in his long life if this hadn't broken that distant expression, that control? Rhysand shrugged, his hand sliding back into his pocket. "Apologies, my queen." He turned away without being dismissed, and didn't look at me as he strode for the back of the throne room. I fell into step beside him, reining in my trembling, trying not to think about the body sprawled behind us, or about Clare— still nailed to the wall. The crowd stayed far, far back as we walked through it. "Whore," some of them softly hissed at him, out of her earshot; "Amarantha's whore." But many offered tentative, appreciative smiles and words— —Good that you killed him; good that you killed the traitor.

  Read quote

• If she captured Tamlin's power once, who's to say she can't do it again?— It was the question I hadn't yet dared voice."He won't be tricked again so easily," he said, staring up at the ceiling. "Her biggest weapon is that she keeps our powers contained. But she can't access them, not wholly" though she can control us through them. It's why I've never been able to shatter her mind— why she's not dead already. The moment you break Amarantha's curse, Tamlin's wrath will be so great that no force in the world will keep him from splattering her on the walls."A chill went through me."Why do you think I'm doing this?— He waved a hand to me."Because you're a monster."He laughed. "True, but I'm also a pragmatist. Working Tamlin into a senseless fury is the best weapon we have against her. Seeing you enter into a fool's bargain with Amarantha was one thing, but when Tamlin saw my tattoo on your arm Oh, you should have been born with my abilities, if only to have felt the rage that seeped from him."I didn't want to think much about his abilities. "Who's to say he won't splatter you as well?""Perhaps he'll try" but I have a feeling he'll kill Amarantha first. That's what it all boils down to, anyway: even your servitude to me can be blamed on her. So he'll kill her tomorrow, and I'll be free before he can start a fight with me that will reduce our once-sacred mountain to rubble.— He picked at his nails. "And I have a few other cards to play."I lifted my brows in silent question."Feyre, for Cauldron's sake. I drug you, but you don't wonder why I never touch you beyond your waist or arms?"Until tonight— until that damned kiss. I gritted my teeth, but even as my anger rose, a picture cleared."It's the only claim I have to innocence," he said, —the only thing that will make Tamlin think twice before entering into a battle with me that would cause a catastrophic loss of innocent life. It's the only way I can convince him I was on your side. Believe me, I would have liked nothing more than to enjoy you— but there are bigger things at stake than taking a human woman to my bed."I knew, but I still asked, "Like what?—"Like my territory," he said, and his eyes held a far-off look that I hadn't yet seen. "Like my remaining people, enslaved to a tyrant queen who can end their lives with a single word. Surely Tamlin expressed similar sentiments to you." He hadn't— not entirely. He hadn't been able to, thanks to the curse."Why did Amarantha target you?" I dared ask. "Why make you her whore?""Beyond the obvious?" He gestured to his perfect face. When I didn't smile, he loosed a breath. "My father killed Tamlin's father" and his brothers."I started. Tamlin had never said" never told me the Night Court was responsible for that."It's a long story, and I don't feel like getting into it, but let's just say that when she stole our lands out from under us, Amarantha decided that she especially wanted to punish the son of her friend's murderer" decided that she hated me enough for my father's deeds that I was to suffer."I might have reached a hand toward him, might have offered my apologies" but every thought had dried up in my head. What Amarantha had done to him —So,— he said wearily, —here we are, with the fate of our immortal world in the hands of an illiterate human.

  Read quote

• I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength... As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust— and reach out.

  Read quote

• She did not want to be a consolation prize. Be pitied or a distraction.

  Read quote

• His lips were smooth against my skin, his breath warm, and my knees buckled as he lifted my other hand to his mouth and kissed it, too. Kissed it carefully - in a way that made heat begin pounding in my core, between my legs.

  Read quote

• One second, he was in my mouth, my tongue flicking over the broad head of him; the next, his hands were on my waist and I flipped onto my front. He nudged my legs apart with his knees, spreading me as he gripped my hips, tugging them up, up before he sheathed himself deep in me with a single stroke.I moaned into the pillow at every glorious inch of him, rising onto my forearms as my fingers grappled into the sheets.

  Read quote

• Rhys shuddered, and I watched his cock twitch."Play later," he ground out.Indeed.His mouth found mine, the kiss open and deep, a clash of tongues and teeth. He lay me down on the pillows, and I locked my legs around his back, careful of the wings.Though I stopped caring as he nudged at my entrance. And paused."Play later," I snarled into his mouth.Rhys laughed and slid in. And in. And in.

  Read quote

• Please,— I gasped out.He just brushed his lips against my jaw, my neck, my mouth."Tamlin," I begged. He palmed my breast, his thumb flicking over my nipple. I cried out, and he buried himself in me with a mighty stroke.For a moment, I was nothing, no one.Then we were fused, two hearts beating as one, and I promised myself it always would be that way as he pulled out a few inches, the muscles of his back flexing beneath my hands, and then slammed back into me. Again and again.I broke and broke against him as he moved, as he murmured my name and told me he loved me. And when that lightning once more filled my veins, my head, when I gasped out his name, his own release found him. I gripped him through each shuddering wave, savoring the weight of him, the feel of his skin, his strength.For a while, only the rasp of our breathing filled the room.I frowned as he withdrew at last— but he didn't go far. He stretched out on his side, head propped on a fist, and traced idle circles on my stomach, along my breasts.

  Read quote

• Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. You don't hold on to power by being everyone's friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We're too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.

  Read quote

• Celaena opened her arms wide, Goldryn burning bright in one hand. "Behold my power, Maeve. Behold what I grapple with in the deep dark, what prowls under my skin."Celaena exhaled a breath and extinguished each and every flame in the

  Read quote

• What?"Lucien laughed. "Yes— all those female faeries around you were females for Tamlin to pick. It's an honor to be chosen, but it's his instincts that select her.—"But you were there" and other male faeries.— My face burned so hot that I began sweating. That was why those three horrible faeries had been there— and they'd thought that just by my presence, I was happy to comply with their plans."Ah." Lucien chuckled. "Well, Tam's not the only one who gets to perform the rite tonight. Once he makes his choice, we're free to mingle. Though it's not the Great Rite, our own dalliances tonight will help the land, too." He shrugged off that invisible hand a second time, and his eyes fell upon the hills. "You're lucky I found you when I did, though," he said. "Because he would have smelled you, and claimed you, but it wouldn't have been Tamlin who brought you into that cave." His eyes met mine, and a chill went over me. —And I don't think you would have liked it. Tonight is not for lovemaking.

  Read quote

• But they held tighter to each other, past and present and future; flickering between an ancient hall in a mountain castle perched above Orynth, a bridge suspended between glass towers, and another place, perfect and strange, where they had been crafted from stardust and light. A wall of night knocked them back. But they could not be contained. The darkness paused for breath. They erupted.

  Read quote

• What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

  Read quote

• They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began.

  Read quote

• Are you ashamed of what I've done? she dared to ask. His brow creased. Why would you ever think that?She couldn't quite look him in the eye as she ran a finger down the blanket. Are you?Aedion was silent long enough that she lifted her head - but found him gazing toward the door, as though he could see through it, across the city, to the captain. When he turned to her, his handsome face was open - soft in a way she doubted many ever saw. Never, he said. I could never be ashamed of you.

  Read quote

• They'd been forged of the same ore, two sides of the same golden, scarred coin. She'd know it when she spied him atop the execution plataform. She couldn't explain it. No one could understand that instant bond, that soul-deep assurance and rightness, unless they, too, had experienced it. But she owned no explanations to anyone - not about Aedion.

  Read quote

• Having Aelin help him the first time had been awkward enough that he couldn't even go until she started singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs and turned on the sink faucet, all the while helping him stand over the toilet.

  Read quote

• I heard a story, Aedion drawled to Rowan, that you killed an enemy warlord using a table. Please,Aelin said. Who the hell told you that?Quinn-your uncle's Captain of the Guard. He was an admirer of Prince Rowan's. He knew all the stories.Aelin slid her eyes to Rowan, who smirked, bracing his sparring stick on the floor. You can't be serious, she said. What-you squashed him to death like a pressed grape?

  Read quote

• Chaol, he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. Treat her well.

  Read quote