Crown Of Midnight Quotes
"No matter the cause, though, it—it still takes away a little piece of you each time. So I don’t think I’ll ever forget them."
"The best lies were always mixed with truth."
"The world is already in ruin, and I won’t be set on some fool’s errand."
The next time we train," he said, "remind me to wallop you.
"Be grateful I consider you a worthy accessory."
"I almost didn’t recognize you. You were just a girl when I saw you last."
"You don’t need to be escorted everywhere now."
"You have no idea how loud and tiresome you’ve been these past few months."
"Thank the Wyrd his father had left, because he was fairly certain the king would have flayed her for it."
"Years of living in this festering court kept Dorian from doing anything but looking gloriously bored."
"Nothing. Not a hint of emotion. Dorian’s temper flared, so fast that he found himself struggling for control."
"He was the Crown Prince of the largest empire in the world. His entire existence was bound to the crown and the glass throne that would someday be his."
"‘None of us can be trusted. Especially not Roland. The things I’ve heard about him are enough to turn even your stomach, I bet.’"
"‘Something is coming,’ she whispered. ‘And I am to greet it.’"
"‘How could the guards just turn their backs like that? How can they keep her in such conditions?’ Nehemia paused, glancing apologetically at Celaena."
"‘I think such honor faded from Adarlan generations ago, but before Terrasen fell, its royal court was the one that set the example.’"
"‘Maybe he’s changed in the past few months—matured a little,’ Chaol said."
"‘It’s going to take more than a few sultry glances to make me your willing slave, Archer. You should know better than to try the tricks of your trade on me.’"
"‘Because I do worry! I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn’t, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.’"
"‘Celaena,’ he bellowed as her knees buckled and she fell. She saw only the golden brown of his eyes and held on long enough to whisper, ‘Gloriella,’ before everything tilted and went black."
"‘You turn from me because you know it’s true.’"
"‘Shut it,’ Celaena said, and flung open the tomb door, letting Nehemia inside. ‘Save it for someone who cares.’"
"‘I have worked for ten years to become famous enough to gain an invitation to this castle. Ten years, so I could come here to sing the songs of magic that you tried to wipe out.’"
"‘Morning lessons instead of our walk, then?’ Nehemia beamed, and Celaena felt a twinge of guilt for not telling her about the catacombs as the princess said, ‘Of course.’"
Trust me," Nehemia said. "It’s a coincidence—just like that eye in the wall. ‘The eye’ could refer to anything—anything at all.
"You’ll drive yourself mad, Elentiya. I can do some research on the subject, but it might take a while before I find anything."
Thank you," she said in between mouthfuls as Nehemia sat down again, too. "For not exploding on me.
"Elentiya, I’m honestly surprised you told me."
"A man who wants his freedom and has had enough of serving pigs."
We’ll never be a normal boy and girl, will we?" "No," he breathed, eyes blazing. "We won’t.
"There’s nothing that can be said, or done."
"She knew the stories—legends that had given her brutal nightmares as a child."
"Because today is the tenth anniversary of her parents’ death."
"It’s the greatest gift I’ve been given in a long while."
"I can’t tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you."
"Because you remind me of how the world ought to be. What the world can be."
"I would be the greatest fool in the world to let you go alone."
"There was never any line between them, only his own stupid fear and pride."
"No one has thrown me a birthday party since I was a child."
"You think I didn’t recognize the Captain of the Guard the day you just happened to run into me outside of the Willows?"
"It protects you, as Elena said. It guards you from harm, though you certainly seem to do your best to get into trouble."
"If she could ever forget the day when everything she had loved had been wrenched from her, and she’d awoken covered in blood that was not her own."
So you’re just going to stay here all night?" "I’ve slept in worse places.
"I’ll tell you the story some other time."
"But he’ll kill you, and make me do it as punishment for being your friend."
"I think my experience with ‘worse places’ is a lot more horrible than yours."
"He’ll kill you, and make me do it as punishment for being your friend."
"She’d been planning the night for a few weeks now."
"I don’t see how that’s any of your business, Captain Westfall. And I won’t tell you until you tell me."
"The Yulemas ball. Maybe earlier. Maybe even Samhuinn, when I brought you this ring. But Yulemas was the first time I realized I didn’t like the idea of you with—with someone else."
"Customers who have questions during lunch pay double."
"Your kind of magic is gone, yes. But there are other, forgotten powers that work."
"Then they’d be a damn fool, and asking for a hanging."
"Promise me that you’ll help me free Eyllwe from him."
"You will never be my friend. You will always be my enemy."
"No, there aren’t. Because I’m here now."
"I don’t care who you are and what you want. I’m taking him now."
"I’m too busy debating whether I should just kill you and drag your carcass before the king."
"There is no magic left anymore; even the surviving Fae can’t access their powers."
"I don’t think you realize who you’re dealing with."
"The gods that cursed these lands ten years ago damned the witches centuries before that."
"I don’t think that would be very comfortable."
"He didn’t know how long she’d been hunting him. It had been well over a week since he’d killed the princess; a week, and no one had even looked his way."
"King’s Champion indeed. It hadn’t been hard to lose her at all."
"The man’s face was still set in a scream, and there was something vaguely familiar about the grotesque features and mousy brown hair that she gripped."
"It is only with the eye that one can see rightly."
"It took Celaena an hour to gently, carefully pack up Nehemia’s clothes and jewelry."
"Your people need you. They will need you."
"Mort hissed when she appeared at the door to the tomb."
"The Wyrd governs and forms the foundation of this world."
"And the only way she’d die a traitor would be for her to do what he feared: ally with this secret organization, find Aelin Galathynius, and return to Terrasen."
"Get out of my chambers," she said from the foyer, before striding into the gaming room and slamming the door behind her.
"He hadn’t wept when Nehemia died, or when he’d thrown Celaena in the dungeons, or even when she’d returned with Grave’s head, utterly different from the woman he had grown to love so fiercely."
"Nehemia was gone. And the world … it was moving on without her."
"She couldn’t seal Nehemia away like that, not when that bloodstained bed and those ugly words still haunted her every step, every breath."
"So Celaena just hovered at the pianoforte, tracing her fingers over the keys again and again, and let the silence devour her."
"It was no wonder Nehemia and her family kept such power a secret. And no wonder the King of Adarlan had sought it out for himself."
"Staring down into the stairwell, Celaena touched Damaris, then looked at the two jeweled daggers hanging from her belt. She was fine. No reason to be nervous."
"The only noises were her footsteps and the whispering of the torch flame. A chill ran down her spine, and Celaena stopped as the dark void of the hallway came into view."
"The king’s ring. The ring on Perrington’s finger. And Cain’s ..."
"‘To bind or to contain,’ she read aloud. Dorian peered down at the dozens of symbols on the page."
"She was about to bellow her frustration when she ran past a table and beheld a large black volume resting upon its surface."
"Dorian started to shake his head, but she leaned forward. ‘You just saw me break at least a dozen of your father’s laws. You think I’m going to turn you over to him when you could just as easily destroy me?’"
"Celaena eased open the door just wide enough to slip inside. The moonlight was strong, and her breath caught in her throat as she saw precisely where it fell."
"The creature slammed into the ground, flipping again and again. It was on its feet before it finished rolling, whirling toward Celaena in the same move."
"Celaena looked down the hall, to the stairwell where Archer had fled. Had it only been minutes ago? It had felt like a lifetime."
"She stared down at the body, her final words to him hovering in the air, running claws over Chaol’s already chilled skin."
"Chaol watched blood bubble out of Archer’s lips as Celaena let him slump to the stone floor. She stared down at the body, her final words to him hovering in the air, running claws over Chaol’s already chilled skin."
"She blinked, and the killing calm in her eyes vanished, replaced only by bone-deep weariness and sorrow."
"I owe you an explanation," was all she said.
"When magic stopped ten years ago, I lost my ability."
"I think that we should send the King's Champion to Wendlyn to dispatch the royal family."
"I’ll come back," she said quietly. "I’ll come back for you."
"You’ll figure it out. And when you do… I still pick you. I’ll always pick you."
"I promise," she whispered again. "On my name, on my life, even if it takes until my last breath, I promise I will see Eyllwe freed."
"Celaena Sardothien wasn’t in league with Aelin Ashryver Galathynius. Celaena Sardothien was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir to the throne and rightful Queen of Terrasen."