Book: Kingdom of Ash
Quotes of Book: Kingdom of Ash
She felt as if she had been crying without end for minutes now.Yet this parting, this final farewell ...Aelin looked at Chaol and Dorian and sobbed. Opened her arms to them, and wept as they held each other."I love you both," she whispered. "And no matter what may happen, no matter how far we may be, that will never change.""We will see you again," Chaol said, but even his voice was thick with tears."Together," Dorian breathed, shaking. "We'll rebuild this world together."She couldn't stand it, this ache in her chest. But she made herself pull away and smile at their tear-streaked faces, a hand on her heart. "Thank you for all youhave done for me."Dorian bowed his head. "Those are words I'd never thought I'd hear from you."She barked a rasping laugh, and gave him a shove. "You're a king now. Suchinsults are beneath you."He grinned, wiping at his face.Aelin smiled at Chaol, at his wife waiting beyond him. "I wish you every happiness," she said to him. To them both.Such light shone in Chaol's bronze eyes-that she had never seen before."We will see each other again," he repeated.Then he and Dorian turned toward their horses, toward the bright day beyond the castle gates. Toward their kingdom to the south. Shattered now, but not forever.Not forever. book-quotedorian-havilliardBefore my first battle," Aedion said to the girl, "I spent the entire night inthe privy."Evangeline squeaked, "You?"Aedion smirked. "Oh yes. Quinn, the old Captain of the Guard, said it was awonder I had anything left inside me by the time dawn broke." An old achefilled Aedion's chest at the mention of his mentor and friend, the man he'dadmired so greatly. Who had made his final stand, as Aedion would, on the plainbeyond this city.Evangeline let out a little laugh. "That's disgusting.""It certainly was," Aedion said, and could have sworn Lysandra was smiling abit. "So you're already much braver than I ever was.""I threw up earlier," Evangeline whispered.Aedion said in a conspiratorial whisper, "Better than shitting your pants,sweetheart." book-quotekingdom-of-ashevangelineDarrow shook his head. "Why?" Not about her magic being whittled to nothing. But why she had gone to face them, with little more than embers in her veins. "Terrasen is my home," Aelin said. It was the only answer in her heart. Darrow smiled-just a bit. "So it is." He bowed his head. Then his body. "Welcome," he said, then added as he rose, "Your Majesty." But Aelin looked to Evangeline, the girl still beaming. Win me back my kingdom, Evangeline. Her order to the girl, all those months ago. And she didn't know how Evangeline had done it. How she had changed this old lord before them. Yet there was Darrow, gesturing to the gates, to the castle behind him. Evangeline winked at Aelin, as if in confirmation. Aelin just laughed, taking the girl by the hand, and led that promise of Terrasen's bright future into the castle. book-quote
