AOS was far from a perfect novel, but I wanted to share lines/interactions that I liked or amused me. Warning- has spoilers!
"Did she just walk over a border without a second thought?” Chase asked quietly as we followed her. “Is she always like this?”
“Aries. It’s the no fear thing. Welcome to hell.” (Chase & Rieka, Pg. 103)
- That's totally something a sibling would say, ha.
He wore a black suit, his gray hair and eyes complementing his empty style. The only color in his demeanor was a bright crimson Scorpio glyph on his suit jacket. (Pg. 119)
Avia took a chair, turned it around, and sat down. What was with her inability to sit in a chair normally? (Pg. 141)
“You blasted a dude across the room with a zodiac wheel!” Avia yelled, bending over to rub her fist on the top of my head. I swatted her away. “And all this time, we’ve been antagonizing you for your shitty shapeshifting!”
“You’re a Zodiac Turner?” Kaia asked.
“Not to my knowledge,” I said.
“It’s definitely to your knowledge now,” Chase added. (Pg. 156)
Anger contorted her expressions, accented by the fiery hues covering her image. I struggled to look away.
“Rieka?” Avia said. “Just to remind you, that’s your assassin you’re staring at.” (Pg. 161)
“Yeah, and? I saw the look on your face. A pretty girl trying to murder me would fluster even me, and I’m not easily flustered.” (Avia, Pg. 169)
“Yeah. Not entirely sure how I healed you so well, though.”
“It felt warm,” she said. “I liked it.”
“Was that a compliment? Maybe you need more healing. You must be ill.” (Chase & Avia, Pg. 188)
Chase draped it over his shoulders, looking down at Avia. “Wake up, we need to leave before your sister loses her mind.”
“What are you talking about? She lost it a long time ago.”
I rolled my eyes and walked out of the cavern with Kaia. (Pg. 199)
“Are you sure we should just approach foreign objects that quickly?” Kaia asked.
I shrugged. “Been doing it this whole time and haven’t died yet.”
She pointed at Chase. “He is the only reason you guys are alive.” (Pg. 201)
- It made me think of Astarion’s, “I thought we’d just go in and create chaos. It’s worked for us so far.”
“Didn’t Cancer play a role in that myth? It’s been a while since I last heard someone talk about it.”
“Kaia, no, you just asked the wrong person the wrong thing,” Avia said with a deep sigh. “Please, no-” (Pg. 203)
“You tend to question everything, Rieka.”
“Questioning everything is how I get answers,” I said, staring off into the dark abyss. (Avia & Rieka, Pg. 205)
“You know, I’ve fallen in love before. It’s kind of fun, and it hurts when it fails, but it’s nothing to fear.” (Avia, Pg. 211)
“You have no idea what I am.” I threw a foot onto my desk and stepped on top of it. [...] “I will fucking destroy you.” (Pg. 216)
- This was supposed to be a serious moment, but it amuses me so much.
“We have all three archpowers.”
“Yeah, I feel left out,” Avia grumbled.
The Healers fell to the gravesites they were meant to prevent… (pg. 272)
“You fool. How dare you try to save your people when the cause of their peril exists in your own blood?” (Pg. 289)
- Another line that I liked.
I could feel how much Narah cared, how badly she wanted to ease my pain. It was the most soothing sensation I’d ever experienced, the gentle mending of the torn skin on my back, the emotion carrying from her heart to mine [...] (Pg. 295)
I laughed to myself, wondering which one of them had to write on the handle of the Callexus that it was, in fact, safe to hold. (Pg. 351)
She was beautiful in the light of the full Moon. Her white hair was slightly astray [...]. My eyes traced the curvature of her jaw and caught on the faint glimmer and glow in her skin, as if she was meant to be viewed in the moment, in the moonlight. (Rieka toward Narah, Pg. 400)
