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If long suffering propriety

If you don’t want to read about Elain, don’t read the next ACOTAR book 💅

✨Elain the Night Court Spy ✨🌙🌸

“…where only the Mother might witness them…”

“It had never gone this far. They’d exchanged looks, the occasional brush of their fingers, but never this.” - ACOSF

“Azriel, still limping, merely nudged aside Cassian and extended another option.

“I think Azriel and Elain are going to be friends!”

Azriel flirting with Elain

“…I spent most of my time with Elain in her little garden. I was content to listen to her talk about every bud and bloom, about her plans to start another garden by the greenhouse, perhaps a vegetable garden, if she could learn enough about it over the next few months. She had come alive here, and her joy was infectious... I marveled at it, actually—that those years of poverty hadn’t stripped away that light from Elain. Perhaps buried it a bit, but she was generous, loving, and kind—a woman I found myself proud to know, to call sister.”

“Elain bit her lower lip, and it took every ounce of Azriel’s restraint to keep from putting his own teeth there.”

Thinking about all the scenes full of “ lazy writing” SJM was typing up when listening to Guilty as Sin? on repeat 😏

He had only allowed himself these thoughts in the dead of night. Had only allowed his hand to fist his cock and think about her then, when even his shadows had gone to sleep. How that beautiful face might appear as he entered her, what sounds she’d make.

“Elain looked up at Azriel, their eyes meeting, his hand still lingering on the hilt of the blade.

Azriel’s hand slid up her neck, burying in her thick hair. Tilting her face the way he wanted it. Elain’s mouth parted slightly, her eyes scanning his before fluttering shut.

Mor leaned forward. “Do you know why the other queens cursed her—sold her to him?”

“Elain is now going to have dreams about pulling out the ivy and the ivy coming through the window to strangle her in the night, because let me tell you, that ivy didn’t want to leave.” - SJM, Interview

“And like surprise, you’ve [Elain] been like forcibly like essentially married to a stranger who like also was involved in bringing you into this world and betraying and like shoving you into the cauldron. And so like exploring a concept of free will, like what does that look like with a mating bond? Does nature like get it wrong sometimes? Does it get it right sometimes? Like what—. As a writer, I like to find things that make me interested. Like, what if you’re mated to someone and you don’t want to be mated. I’m like look, what do you do? You’re like stuck with this person? Like, what? Like, what do you do? … it’s something that I find to be a really interesting concept, versus Feyre and Nesta where it was so easy for them. Like, nature picked right.” - SJM, CHD Podcast 💙🩷