Aelin Quotes

“I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“You and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Aelin was insane, Dorian realized. Brilliant and wicked, but insane.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“And at long last, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius was home.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Fireheart, her mother had called her.
Not for her power. The name had never once been about her power.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“My name is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius. And I am the Queen of Terrasen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Aelin of the wildfire.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“I can't bury another friend."
"You won't."
"If anything ever happened to you, Rowan-"
"Don't" he breathed. "Don't even say it. We dealt with that enough the other night."
He lifted a hand - hesitated, and then brushed back a strand of hair that had fallen across her face. His callused fingers scrapped against her cheekbone, then caressed the shell of her ear.
It was foolish to even start down that road, when every other man she'd let in had left some wound, in one way or another, accidentally or not.
There was nothing tender in his face. Only a predator's glittering gaze. "When we get back," he said, "remind me to prove you wrong about every thought that just went through your head."
She lifted an eyebrow. "Oh?"
He gave her a sly smile that made thinking impossible. Exactly what he wanted - to distract her from the horrors of tomorrow. "I'll even let you decide how I tell you: with words"- his eyes flickered once to her mouth- "or with my teeth and tongue.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“I knew another women who lost as much as you. And do you know what she did with it-the loss?' He could barely stop the words from pouring out, could barely think over the roaring in this head. 'She hunted down the people responsible for it and obliterated them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“Rowan Whitethorn is a legend. And so is his—what do you call them?”
“Cadre,” she said glumly.
“The six of them …” Aedion loosed a breath. “We used to tell stories about them around fires. Their battles and exploits and adventures.”
She sighed through her nose. “Please, please don’t ever tell him that. I’ll never hear the end of it, and he’ll use it in every argument we have.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“The queen hadn't even bothered to say good-bye. She'd just dashed for the injured Fae warrior, his name like a prayer on her lips. Rowan.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“When you shift, will your hawk form be plucked, then?”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Aelin willed the blood in her veins into black fire. Aedion - her focus was on Aedion, not on the tyrant seated at the front of the room, the man who had murdered her family, murdered Marion, murdered her people. If these were her last moments, then at least she would go down fighting, to the sound of exquisite music.
It was time.
One breath - another.
She was the heir of fire.
She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed to no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“I have no interest in prisioners or battling today,” Manon said.

The Queen of Terrasen gave her a grin. “Good.”

Manon turned away, barking at her Thirteen to get to their mounts.

“I suppose,” the queen went on, “that makes you smarter than Baba Yellowlegs.”

Manon stopped, staring straight ahead and seeing nothing of the grass or sky or tress.

Asterin whirled. “What do you know of Baba Yellowlegs?”

The queen gave a low chuckle, despite the warning growl from the Fae warrior.

Slowly, Manon looked over her shoulder.

The queen tugged apart the lapels of her tunic, revealing a necklace of thin scars as the wind shifted.

The scent - iron and stone and pure hatred - hit Manon like a rock to the face. Every Iroonteeth witch knew the scent that forever lingered on those scars: Witch Killer.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Aedion yawned—the lousiest attempt at one Rowan had ever seen—and excused himself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“A minute of pleasant conversation, and then the territorial Fae bullshit comes raging out”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“No fear in her eyes - in her pretty, mortal face.

None

It’d be more trouble than it was worth.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“At dinner, she'd seen the expression flash across his face when he caught Aelin and Rowan smiling at each other. All of Arobynn's jabs and stories had failed to find their mark tonight because Aelin had been too lost in Rowan to hear. She wondered whether the queen knew. Rowan did. Aedion did. And Arobynn did.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“She made herself look. To face down that place of pain and despair. It would always leave a mark, a stain on her, but she would not let it define her.

Hers was not a story of darkness.

This would not be the story. She would fold it into herself , this place, this fear, but it would not be the whole story. It would not be her story.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“If you're going to have a pissing contest, can you at least do it on the roof?”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Her new enemy, but perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.
"You are too good of a fighter to kill, but if i die here because of you, ill beat the shit out of you in hell”
― Sarah J. Maas

“You brought chocolate—as far as I’m concerned, you’re my new favorite person.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“You and I have always relished damning the odds.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Aelin sighed. 'This place has been shut down for months, and yet I swear I can still hear the music floating in the air.'
Rowan angled his head, studying the dark with those immortal senses. 'Perhaps the music does live on, in some form.'
The thought made her eyes sting.”
― Sarah J Maas

“She pulled a small box from her pocket.
"There's one more task," Aelin said, holding the box out to Lysandra. "You'll probably hate me for it later. But you can start by saying yes."
"Proposing to me? How unexpected.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“"Chaol. You sacrificed yourself. You let them put that collar on you - so he could get out"
"I'm going to let them put a collar on you , and we can play." There was nothing human in that face, no memory in those sapphire eyes. Aelin began to weep, even as blood leaked down her nose from his nearness. "i came back for you. Just like i promised."
"I don't care." Dorian said.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“She'd burned him again. And yet he had held onto her - had run all the way here and not let go once.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“The gods did not care. So she did not bother praying to them.”
― Sarah J. Maas