howeverlongs:

Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. “And if I had not met my mate…” His words failed him as silver lined his eyes.
He said down the bond, I would have waited five hundrend more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have… The wait was worth it.
He wiped away the tears sliding down my face. “I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to… so I could find you.” He kissed another tear away.

aelin:

“leave this world… a better place than how you found it.”

and as its chest rose and stopped altogether, as its breath escaped in one last sigh, i understood why the suriel had come to help me, again and again. not just for kindness… but because it was a dreamer.

and it was the heart of a dreamer that had ceased beating inside that monstrous chest.