My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.

If i had not met a shadowsinger, I would not have known that it is the family you make, not the one you are born into that matters. I would not have known what it is to truly hope, even when the world tells you to despair

She woke up each morning glad to be there, to throw herself against the world and see what it did.

I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time.

The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream.

You could rattle the stars, you could do anything, if only you dared.

You could do anything, if only you dared.

And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.

We do not look back, Choal. It helps no one and Nothing to look back. We can only go on...""What if we go on," he said, "only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?"Aelin looked notrhward,... "Then it is not the end.