Quotes by Sarah J. Maas

But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.

Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.

Vain until the bitter end.

A Court of Thorns and Roses was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: Beauty and the Beast, East of the Sun, West of the Moon and Tam Lin. I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: What if Beauty was a huntress?

“I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time.”

“The best lies were always mixed with truth.”

“I have no name, she purred. Im whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.”

“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”

“He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.”

“I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.”

“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”

“This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars.”

“When your people are lying dead around you, dont come crying to me...”

“I love you, I said, and stabbed him.”

“To escape death, shed become death.”

“She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds.”

“But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”

“He wanted to bury her in Velaris. Somewhere full of light and warmth, full of kind people. Far away from these mountains.”

“I want to take my time with you - to learn … every inch of you. And this apartment has very, very thin walls. I don’t want to have an audience” he added as he leaned down again, brushing his mouth over the cut at the base of her throat, “when I make you moan, Aelin.”

“It took me a long while to realize that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me from shattering completely.”