Heir Of Fire Quotes
"Gods, it was boiling in this useless excuse for a kingdom."
"If she never ate another bite of teggya again, it would be too soon."
"Mostly because it was all she’d been able to afford when she landed in Wendlyn two weeks ago."
"So it had been stolen teggya … and wine."
"You’re nothing but a coward, Nehemia had said to her."
"She’d gladly destroy herself to carry it out."
"A land of myths and monsters—of legends and nightmares made flesh."
"Wendlyn. A land of plenty, of opportunity, where men didn’t just take what they wanted."
"Whatever determination, whatever rage, whatever anything she’d felt upon leaving Adarlan had ebbed away."
"But she hadn’t lingered merely from paranoia."
"A dead weight pressed on Celaena’s chest."
"There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core."
"I am His Majesty’s faithful servant, as I have always been."
"I was waiting for you to speak, Father."
"The common, watery taste of the man, laced with violence and fear, coated her tongue."
"I sent her to do what needs to be done."
"The wounds on Dorian multiplied, and there was blood—so much blood."
"Breathing, as it turned out, was rather hard when the queen who had been known to drive men to madness for amusement was observing every flicker of her throat."
"I will give you those answers. You may come to me in Doranelle to receive them."
"Fae like you make me understand the King of Adarlan’s actions a bit more, I think."
"She was Celaena Sardothien, but he was a Fae warrior and had likely been one for a great while."
"I’ll admit that you’re probably in for a good heap of difficulty."
"You’re a child, and a spoiled one at that."
"I hope you brought snacks, because we’re going to be here a long, long while."
"You can kill me or torture me or throw me off a cliff, but I am done for today."
"I don’t know what the hell you’ve been doing for ten years, other than flouncing around and calling yourself an assassin."
"I don’t feel like dealing with it, and I’m probably the only one who doesn’t give a damn about how angry and vicious and awful you are underneath."
"You can either wait to earn back your steel, or you can enter as you are now."
"I also heard there’s talk that the Yellowlegs need all the help they can get in the sparring room. But I suppose any army needs its supply drivers."
"Any time you need a lesson in combat, Iskra, you just let me know. I’d be happy to teach you a few things about soldiering."
"We are the Thirteen, from now until the Darkness claims us. Let’s remind them why."
"The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you."
"Because I made a promise. A promise to my friend that I would see her kingdom freed."
"You think the river can save you? You think if we get wet, we’ll lose our form? I have worn the skins of fishes when mortals were scarce, female."
"You don’t bite the women of other males."
"You’re not leaving. Because I said so, that’s why."
"If you want him so badly, why don’t you go get him?"
She is Abraxos," Manon said to him, a chill slithering down her neck. "I gave you that name because he is the Great Beast, the serpent who wrapped the world in his coils, and who will devour it at the very end when the Three-Faced Goddess bids him to. You are Abraxos," she repeated, "and you are mine.
"I am Manon Blackbeak, heir to the Blackbeak Clan, and you are mine. Do you understand?"
You’re going to have to decide," Manon said, not bothering to bare her iron teeth. "Are you her spy or my Second?
"We don’t move without your command, Lady," Sorrel said, a faint hint of color on her tan cheeks.
You know who I am," Manon said, gazing into those endless black eyes, not giving one inch to fear or doubt. "I am Manon Blackbeak, heir to the Blackbeak Clan, and you are mine.
"I want you both in my room for their report, too," Manon ordered Asterin and Sorrel.
"I’ll be airborne with Abraxos in a week, and then we’ll be flying as one," Manon declared, her voice firm and unwavering.
"He’s mine," Manon said, taking in the scars, the limp, the burning life in those eyes.
"Because I am lost, and I do not know the way."
"I do not care about you, I do not care about your knife. I do not care about your stories or your little kingdom. So leave me alone. Keep your gods-damned lives to yourselves and leave me alone."
"There is nothing that I can give you. Nothing I want to give you. You are not owed an explanation for what I do outside of training. I don’t care what you have been through or what you want to do with your life. The sooner you can sort out your whining and self-pity, the sooner I can be rid of you. You are nothing to me, and I do not care."
"I told her I would not help, so she orchestrated her own death. Because she thought... She thought that her death would spur me into action. She thought I could somehow do more than her—that she was worth more dead. And she lied—about everything. She lied to me because I was a coward, and I hate her for it. I hate her for leaving me."
"Please tell me you brought food. I’m a growing boy."
"I see her slipping away, bit by bit, because you shove her down when she so desperately needs someone to help her back up."
"You have nothing to hide, you know. We all knew you could shift, anyway."
"You could heal yourself, you know. Heal me, too. Nothing major, but you have that gift."
"My mother told me that the drop of water in my magic was my salvation—and sense of self-preservation."
"Go to bed. Since you’re banned from the kitchen tomorrow, we’re training at dawn."
"When my mate died, it took me a very, very long time to come back."
"For ten years, I did nothing. I vanished. I went mad. Beyond mad."
"Maybe we could find the way back together."
"I wonder what our queen will think of the way you operate."
"All I want is for my people to be free and my queen restored to her throne."
"Then I’ll build one myself from the bones of our enemies."
"I don’t know if I’m civilized enough anymore."
"If she asked me, I would not refuse her."
"What if she wishes to be your friend? Would you deny her that, too?"
"I’m on neither side. I only wish to help my friend before I leave for Anielle."
"They burned the antler throne, Aedion. There is no throne for her."
"I take it His Majesty didn’t give you any warning?"
"I don’t know why they bothered—with Noll, or Amaroth."
"I am sorry, Dorian. More than you know."
"You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love."
"My greatest wish is for a morning when I don’t have to run out the door at first light."
"Just answer yes or no. That’s all you have to do."
"I’m sorry," Rowan hissed, swearing again, and the air vanished.
"Give me one good reason why you won’t take back your throne. One good reason, and I’ll keep my mouth shut about it."
"Because if I free Eyllwe and destroy the king as Celaena, I can go anywhere after that. The crown... my crown is just another set of shackles."
"A lot of people. I spent some time in the Salt Mines of Endovier."
"I was there a year before... it’s a long story."
"I’m going to check on the tonic. I’ll be back soon."
"If you don’t let go, you are going to burn out completely."
"You are on the verge of roasting yourself from the inside out."
"You must learn to recognize the signs—and how to pull back before it’s too late."
"There is this … rage, this despair and hatred and rage that lives and breathes inside me. There is no sanity to it, no gentleness. It is a monster dwelling under my skin."
"I am trying, and I will. Narrok, you have to know that I—I wasn’t aware you had—"
"The thought of you with any of my companions makes my blood run cold."
"Immortality is not as much of a gift as mortals would believe. It can breed monsters that even you would be sick to learn about."
"So when the magic runs out, that’s it—either you stop or you burn out."
"No, it cannot melt, because you do not have a heart, Manon. We are not born with them, and we are glad of it."
"You are one of the Thirteen, from now until the Darkness cleaves us apart. You are mine, and I am yours."
"Sometimes, mates can be together intimately before the actual bond snaps into place."
"You will make the Crossing tomorrow, Manon. Tomorrow, and I don’t care if you splatter yourself on the rocks."
"We’re dealing with a cunning, lethal predator, regardless of where it originated and how many there are."
"I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don’t care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend."
"I have never told anyone this story. No one in the world knows it. But it’s mine, and it’s time for me to tell it."
"It might take a while, but if—when I reclaim my kingdom, the demi-Fae will always have a home there."
"You were brought back. All the players in the unfinished game."
"Once you let me in, girl, there shall be no more blood, or pain."
"We were not beaten. Only contained. Until a mortal man was foolish enough to invite us back in, to use these glorious bodies."
"I am a woman who has a power that might save lives. Let me do this."
"Power the likes of which the world has not seen since Brannon himself."
"Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding."