lillady

There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They committed crimes against fashion. When one was immortal, one tended to forget the passing of time. Still, that was no excuse for wearing a bonnet last fashionable in the era of Napoleon I.

Then why do you make us study characters like Hamlet-heroes-if we’re not supposed to act like them?

At the same time, she thinks that perhaps Linnea’s truth isn’t the only truth. If Minoo has mainly experienced the lighter side of life, Linnea has mainly experienced the darker side. Is one truer than the other.

I look like this because I’m alive, because I’ve had experiences. Do you understand?

I don’t mind him not talking so much because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing.

I inquire after his reasoning diplomatically, ‘So what the fuck was that, dude?’

Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone’s hand and setting the very point against your own heart.

‘I just have one question-did you keep Sen’s plan from me because you thought I’d knife a bitch in the kidney?’ 'That might have been part of it.’ 'Then you don’t know me as well as you think. Because I would have gone straight for the heart.’

‘Hang in there. You are not dying from a stupid body piercing.’ 'At least it wasn’t a head injury this time. I stayed conscious the entire flight.’

She lifted her face to the stars. She was Aelin Ashryver Galahynius, heir of the two mightly bloodlines, protector of a once-glorious people, and Queen of Terrasen. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius-and she would not be afraid.