Bryce Quinlan Quotes

“What is it you want to know?" Nesta asked carefully.

Bryce glanced between them. "How'd you two meet?"

"There was a war," Nesta said shortly.

"Between who?" Bryce asked.

Azriel answered this time. "Between an evil Fae King and us."

"You two, or like . . . everyone?"

Nesta gave her a withering look, "Yes, the King of Hybern declared war on just me and Azriel.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

“What do you want to hear?" Bryce asked, opening her music library.

Nesta and Azriel swapped glances, and the male answered a bit sheepishly, "The music you played at your pleasure halls."

Bryce laughed, "Are you a club rat, Azriel?"

He glowered at her, earning a smirk from Nesta, but Bryce played one of her dance tunes - a zippy blend of thumping bass and saxophones. And as the three of them walked into the endless dark, she could have sworn she caught Azriel nodding along to the beat.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

“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

“Ember at last pulled away from Nesta. But she gently put a hand to the female’s cheek and whispered, “You’ll find your way,” before walking to the portal.
Bryce could have sworn there were tears in Nesta’s eyes as her mother stepped back into Midgard.
But those tears were gone when Nesta met Bryce’s stare. And Cassian, like any good mate, sensed when he wasn’t wanted, and walked over to the fireplace to pretend to read some sort of old-looking manuscript. Bryce knew that, also like any good mate, if she made one wrong move, he’d rip her to shreds. Which was precisely why Hunt had come back into the room, and was watching Nesta carefully.
“Alphaholes,” Nesta echoed, eyes gleaming with amusement.
Bryce chuckled and drew the Starsword. Again, Cassian tensed, but Bryce just offered it to Nesta. The female took it, blinking.
“You said you had an eight-pointed star tattooed on you,” Bryce explained. “And you found the chamber with the eight-pointed star in the Prison, too.”
Nesta lifted her head. “So?”
“So I want you to take the Starsword.” Bryce held the blade between them. “Gwydion—whatever you call it here. The age of the Starborn is over on Midgard. It ends with me.”
“I don’t understand.”
But Bryce began backing toward the portal, taking Hunt’s hand, and smiled again at the female, at her mate, at their world, as the Northern Rift began to close. “I think that the eight-pointed star was tattooed on you for a reason. Take that sword and go figure out why.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

“Bryce said, her chest aching. "Your mom must be proud of all your... badassery too."

Nesta's back stiffened. "My mother would be thrashing in her grave if she knew I was a warrior --- if she knew I wore trousers every single day and that I'm mated to a Fae male. I can't tell what would have horrified her more: me marrying a poor human man or becoming what I am now.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

“Bruce nodded, "This is what we call classical music --- the music performed in the Crescent City Ballet. This is from a ballet called the Glass Coffin." Bryce hit play again, and the violins began.

Again Nesta was silent, knees now clutched to her chest, staring into the darkness. As if she was dedicating every inch of herself to listening.

Bryce tapped her foot along to the melody, reading the expressions stealing across Nesta's face as the music played. Wonder and curiosity, joy and --- longing. Nesta seemed to be thrumming with the music, though she didn't move at all. Like she was coming alive merely listening to the sound.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

“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

“Thanks, but no. I like my TV and phone. And I like being considered a person, not livestock for breeding.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“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 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

“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

“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

“I mean, don't go in there playing Scary Asshole. May try for an Approachable Asshole vibe.'
...
'Approachable Asshole it is, Quinlan.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“The sword's as much yours as it is mine.'

Bryce waved a hand. 'I'll take it on weekends and holidays, don't worry.'

Hunt tossed in. 'And it'll get two Winter Solstices, so... double the presents.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“He knows we're a team.'

'A team,' Hunt said slowly. As if, out of everything she'd laid out, that was what he chose to dwell on.

'You know what I mean,' Bryce said.

'I'm not sure I do.' Had his voice dropped lower?

'We're roomies,' she said, her own voice getting breathy.

'Roomies.'

'Occasional Beer Pong Champions?'

Hunt snatched the hat off her head and plunked it back on his own, backward as usual. 'Yes, the Autumn King truly fears our unholy beer pong alliance.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“I've never stopped wanting it- wanting you. I thought it was obvious.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Your chest is as big as mine,' she muttered.

'That's the least sexy thing anyone has ever said to me,' ...”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Danika, who’d wanted more for this world, for Bryce.
Light it up.
But maybe the Fae and their bloodline didn’t deserve Bryce’s light. Maybe they deserved to fall forever into darkness.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

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

“The music in your world," Nesta said suddenly, interrupting Bryce's doom spiral. "It's all simply available to anyone?"

"In a way, yes you can find any song, any piece of music, and listen to it whenever you want."

"You have wonders in your world," Nesta said.

Azriel added from a few steps behind them, "And terrors.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“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

“I guess I just... Sometimes I catch myself enjoying a moment, and worry I'm enjoying it too much, you know? Like something could come along and ruin all of this if I let myself have too much fun or get too accustomed to feeling happy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“I'm at your apartment and ready to go through your underwear drawer.

She'd written back immediately, You're early. I'll be there in ten. Don't leave drool stains on my lace ones. Or worse.

No promises, he'd answered, and she'd replied, Just spare the pink bra, please.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“I can't do this without you, Hunt.'

He said softly, 'I know. I'm just... Fuck, Quinlan. The thought of anything happening to you scares the shit out of me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“I might have been born before computers, Quinlan, but I do know how to use them.”
― 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

“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

“... the official history of this world is not necessarily to be believed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“His wing brushed her bare shoulder and she turned her head to find him with his head propped on a fist.

'Don't do that.'

'What?' His eyes sparkled in the dimness.

She turned onto her own side and waved a hand toward him. 'Look so... like that.'

His lips curled upward. 'Sexy? Attractive? Seductive?'

'All of the above.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath