* sarah j. mass's book prompts.
A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
โ We need hope, or else we cannot endure. โ
โ Donโt feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy. โ
โ Pity those who donโt feel anything at all. โ
โ You look โฆ better than before. โ
โ Was that a compliment? โ
โ We need hope, or else we cannot endure.ย โ
โ Well, good-bye for now. โ
โ Do you ever stop being so serious and dull? โ
โ Do you ever stop being such a prick? โ
โ I would have been gentle with you, though.. โ
โ When you healed my armโฆYou didnโt need to bargain with me. โ
โ You could have demanded every single week of the year. โ
โ It wasnโt entirely a question, but I needed the answer.ย โ
โ You can leave if youโre just going to insult me. โ
โ I could imagine very easily how much I would hate him. โ
โ That damned bitch is running me ragged. โ
โ I didnโt want you to fight alone. Or die alone.. โ
โ I didnโt want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. โ
โ So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn. โ
โ Iโd long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it. โ
โ I doubt youโll be saying that when I take you to the Night Court. โ
โ You didnโt tell me this would happen. โ
โ You didnโt ask. So how am I to blame? โ
โ Iโd want someone to hold my hand until the end. โ
โ To the people who look at the stars and wish. โ
โ To the stars who listenโ and the dreams that are answered. โ
โ I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us. โ
โ I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. โ
โ I was a survivor, and I was strong. โ
โ I would not, could not be broken. Tamed. โ
โ There are good days and hard days for meโeven now.ย โ
โ Donโt let the hard days win. โ
โ My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant. โ
โ No one was my masterโ but I might be master of everything. โ
โ There are different kinds of darkness. โ
โ It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. โ
โ There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes. โ
โ I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. โ
โ I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what heโd done for me. โ
โ My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds. โ
โ I realizedโI realized how badly Iโd been treated before. โ
โ I rarely went outside at nightโusually, I was so tired from hunting. โ
โ I didnโt particularly care for them, anyway. โ
โ I wonder if I was looking for this placeโlooking for you all. โ
โ I knew you could take care of yourself. โ
โ I would have torn apart the world to get you back.. โ
โ Iโm thinking that I want you so badly I canโt concentrate. โ
โ Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. โ
A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN
โ Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you. โ
โ Itโs a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it. โ
โ Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged. โ
โ I believe everything happens for a reason. โ
โ My own power would have consumed me long ago. โ
โ I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had toโฆย โ
โ Night Triumphant- and the Stars Eternal. โ
โ What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. โ
โ I will find you in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. โ
โ You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. โ
โ When you erupt, girl, make sure it is felt across worlds. โ
โ Weโre all a broken, in our own ways - In places no one might see. โ
โ A thousand years. โ
โ One life may change the world. โ
โ Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty. โ
โ My goal was bigger than revenge. โ
โ My purpose greater than personal retribution. โ
โ Words had become as foreign and hard to reach as the stars.. โ
โ We donโt have the luxury of good ideasโonly picking between the bad ones. โ
โ I didnโt know how long my sisters and I lay there together. โ
โ Because I canโt stay away. โ
โ Leave this worldโฆ a better place than how you found it. โ
โ I hadnโt realized I was a villain in your narrative. โ
โ I would clean my blades, and wash the blood from my skin. โ
amandla
