House Of Earth And Blood Quotes

“Isaiah coughed. "You watched Quinlan for one night."
"Ten hours, to be exact. Right until her pet chimera just appeared next to me at dawn, bit me in ass for looking like I was dozing off, and then vanished again - right back into the apartment. Just as Quinlan came out of her bedroom and opened the curtains to see me grabbing my own ass like a f***ing idiot. Do you know how sharp a chimera's teeth are?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I traded with Jesiba for your freedom last week. I have the papers in my desk. I wanted to throw a party for it- to surprise you.' The bathroom door began warping, bending. Bryce sobbed. 'I bought you and now I set you free, Lehabah.'

Lehabah's smile didn't falter. 'I know,' she said. 'I peeked in your drawer.'

And despite the monster trying to break loose behind them, Bryce choked on a laugh before she begged. 'You are a free person- you do not have to do this. You are free, Lehabah.'

Yet Lehabah remained at the foot of the stairs. 'Then let the world know that my first act of freedom was to help my friends.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Come on,' he repeated, pumping her chest again with his hands. 'I'm waiting for you.'

He'd been waiting for her from the moment he'd been born.

And as if she'd heard him, Bryce exploded into life.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“You're my sister,' Ruhn didn't bother to keep his voice down. No, there was pride in his voice. And damn if that didn't hit her in the heart. 'Of course I'd come to save your ass.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I don't give a shit,' he said, smiling slightly. 'I don't care if I'm called Prince or Starborn or the Chosen One or any of that.' He grabbed her hand. 'The only thing I want to be called right now is your brother.' He added softly. 'If you'll have me.'

She winked, even as her heart tightened unbearably. 'I'll think about it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Hunt's fingers stroked over her brow. 'I thought to myself, There's someone I want guarding my back. There's a friend I'd live to have. I think I gave you such a hard time when we met up again because... because some part of me knew that, and was afraid of what it'd mean.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I've got you,' he murmured. 'Sweetheart, I've got you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“...I realised all this was the wrong path. But you and me, Bryce... You are where I want to end up. A life- with you. You are my fucking path.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“It sucked. This stupid fucking world they lived in.

It sucked, and it was full of awful people. And the good ones always paid for it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“What sort of an afterward for you and me do you have in mind, Athalar?'

He didn't balk from her searching gaze. 'The good kind,' he said with equal quiet.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Hunt.' The entire world went quiet. 'I was waiting for you.'

'Bryce, sweetheart, just get back to your apartment and give me an hour and-'

'No,' she whispered, closing her eyes. She put her hand on her chest. Over her heart. 'I was waiting for you- in here.'

Hunt couldn't stop his own tears then. 'I was waiting for you, too.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“This sunball-watching person doesn't fit with my mental image of the Shadow of Death.'

'Sorry to disappoint.' Hunt's turn to lift a brow. 'What do you think I do with my spare time?'

'I don't know. I assumed you cursed at the stars and brooded and plotted revenge on all your enemies.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Why,' she asked Bryce, 'is Hunt Athalar your roommate?'

'He was booted from the 33rd for his questionable fashion sense,' she said munching on the croissant. 'I told him his boring black clothes don't bother me, and let him stay here.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I promised Fury not to do anything stupid,' Bryce said, her eyes on Syrinx's branded-out tattoo. 'I didn't say I wouldn't do something smart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“This wasn't supposed to happen- between us,' she whispered.

'I know,' he said, kissing her shaking fingers again. He gently unfurled them, exposing the heart of her palm. He pressed his mouth there, too. 'But thank fucking Urd it did.'

Her hands stopped shaking. Hunt lifted his eyes from her hand to find her own lined with silver- and full of fire. He interlaced their fingers. 'For fuck's sake, just kiss me, Quinlan.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Light it up, bitch.'

'Light it up, asshole,' ...”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“There are thirty-six photos on your four-year-old phone, and all of them are of dismembered bodies,' she said. Someone gasped across the store.

Hunt gritted his teeth. 'Say it a little louder, Quinlan.'

She frowned. 'You never take any others?'

'Of what?'

'Oh, I don't know- of life? A pretty flower or good meal or something?'

'What's the point?'

She blinked, then shook her head. 'Weirdo.'

And before he could stop her, she'd angled his phone in front of her, beamed from ear to ear, and snapped a photo of herself before she handed it back to him. 'There. One non-corpse photo.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I don't need a male telling me when to eat.'

'How about a friend telling you that you had an understandably rough night, and you get mean as shit when you're hungry?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I would rather die like her than watch innocents die while I'm sitting in here.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“She was sea and sky and stone and blood and wings and earth and stars and darkness and light and bone and flame.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I didn't order a pizza.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Hunt lifted a finger for her to perch on. 'Shall we?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Don't let the books sweet-talk you into taking them home.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I might have been born before computers, Quinlan, but I do know how to use them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I'm sorry you lost your friends.'

'I'm sorry you lost yours.'

Bryce nodded her thanks, going back to stirring. 'I know people don't get it. It's just... a light went out inside me when it happened. Danika wasn't my sister, or my lover. But she was the one person I could be myself around and never feel judged. The one person that I knew would always pick up the phone, or call me back. She was the one person who made me feel brave because no matter what happened, no matter how bad or embarrassing or shitty it was, I knew that I had her in my corner. That if it all went to Hel, I could talk to her and it would be fine.'

Her eyes gleamed, and it was all he could do to not cross the few feet between them and grab her hand as she continued. 'But it... I'm not fine. I will never talk to her again. I think people expect me to be over it by now. But I can't. Anytime I get anywhere close to the truth of my new reality, I want to space out again. To not have to be me. I can't fucking dance anymore because it reminds me of her- of all the dancing we did together in clubs or on the streets or in our apartment or dorm. I won't let myself dance anymore because it brought me joy, and... And I didn't, I don't, want to feel those things.' She swallowed. 'I know it sounds pathetic.'

'It's not,' he said quietly.

'I'm sorry I dumped my baggage in your lap.'

A corner of his mouth turned up. 'You can dump your baggage in my lap anytime, Quinlan.'

She snorted, shaking her head. 'You made it sound gross.'

'You said it first.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Let someone in, give them the power to hurt you, and they'd do exactly that in the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Why does she collect us all?' the sprite whispered. 'Am I not a person, too?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“We just go back to normal?'

'Yes.'

Her flickering eyes met Bryce. 'What is normal, anyway?'

'Seems boring to me?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“She laid he palm over his thundering heart. 'Did you just call me a fucking coward?'

Hunt tipped his head to the stars and laughed. 'So what if I did?'

She angled her face closer to his. 'Too bad all that healing firstlight didn't turn you into a decent person.'

'Where would the fun be in that, Quinlan?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“My friends are with me and I am not afraid. - Lehabah”
― Sarah J. Maas