11 Quotes Tagged: a-court-of-mist-and-fury

"To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen — and the dreams that are answered.

When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.

There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.

My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.

And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.

No one was my master — but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate.

There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me — not a lie at all, not a threat to keep those faeries away.

Thank you for finding her for me.