Last Updated on July 15, 2020 by Scott M. Thomas
Throne Of Glass is a young adult novel series by Sarah J. Maas. Based on the journey of Celaena Sardothien, a teenage executioner in a corrupt kingdom with an oppressive ruler. She is characterized as skilled, arrogant, and humorous. The author ultimately designed Celaena as a highly capable character whose talents also form a basis for numerous faults. These are some of my preferred quotes from the Throne of Glass series that inspire and motivate you.
“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons”
“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most”
“My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name’s Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I’d still beat you, no matter what you call me”
“Everybody is something. Even the most common witch has her coven’
“You’re remarkably judgmental”
“What’s the point in having a heart if you don’t use it to spare others from the harsh judgments of your mind?”
“Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands”
“Names are not important. It’s what lies inside of you that matters”
“Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back”
“Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we’ve faced them”
“I like music,” she said slowly, “because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I’m not . . . for once, I’m not destroying, I’m creating”
“Because I didn’t expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!”
She snatched the bag from him and put it on the table. “Well, that just shows poor judgment on your part, doesn’t it?”
“With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book because he knew that she would win”
“I name you Elentiya.” She kissed the assassin’s brow. “I give you this name to use with honor, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, ‘Spirit That Could Not Be Broken”
“We each survive in our own way”
“I wasn’t going to kill him, you buffoon”
“Second place is a nice title for the first loser”
“I’m not married,” he said softly, “because I can’t stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul”
“Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands”
“His breath was warm on her neck as he bent his head, resting his cheek against her hair. Her heartbeat so quickly, and yet she felt utterly calm—as if she could have stayed there forever and not minded, stayed there, let the world fall apart around them. She pictured his fingers, pushing against that line of chalk, reaching for her despite the barrier between them”
“He won every game, yet she hardly noticed. As long as she hit the ball, it resulted in shameless bragging. When she missed – well, even the fires of Hell couldn’t compare to the rage that burst from her mouth. He couldn’t remember a time when he’d laugh so hard”
“After a too-long moment, the crown prince spoke. “I don’t quite comprehend why you’d force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.” His words were coated with glorious boredom”
“And the city would have a library, too. A great, wonderful library. Or a bookshop with a knowledgeable owner who could make sure her thirst for books was always sated”
“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books”
“Her salary as King’s Champion was considerable, and Celaena spent every last copper of it. Shoes, hats, tunics, dresses, jewelry, weapons, baubles for her hair, and books. Books and books and books. So many books that Philippa had to bring up another bookcase for her room”
“Life isn’t easy, no matter where you are. You’ll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them”
“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he needed to be. Where he wanted to be”
“You’re afraid. Of yourself more than anyone else in the world”
“It would not take a monster to destroy a monster ― but light, light to drive out darkness”
“You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live”
“But just remember that this fear of yours? It means you have something worth fighting for – something you care so greatly for that losing it is the worst thing you can imagine”
“No matter what happens,” she said quietly, “I want to thank you.”
Charles tilted his head to the side. “For what?”
Her eyes stung but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. “For making my freedom mean something”
“Oh! I love that story! It has such a happy ending, too—why, the assassin was really feigning her illness in order to get the prince’s attention! Who would have guessed it? Such a clever girl. And the bedroom scene is so lovely—it’s worth reading through all of their ceaseless banter!”
“The choice of how our people’s future shall be shaped is yours,” Manon told each of the witches assembled, all the Blackbeaks who might fly off to war and never return. “But I will tell you this.” Her hands shook, and she fisted them on her thighs. “There is a better world out there. And I have seen it”
“And what’s wrong with headstrong girls?” she pressed. “Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?”
“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material”
“We all bear scars,… Mine just happens to be more visible than most”
“Each of the scars, the chipped, broken claws, the mutilated tail—they weren’t the markings of a victim. Oh, no. They were the trophies of a survivor. Abraxos was a warrior who’d had all the odds stacked against him and survived. Learned from it. Triumphed”
“But these days … she didn’t know what she needed. What she wanted. If she felt like admitting it, she actually didn’t have the faintest clue who the hell she was anymore. All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. And maybe that was a good thing”
“I once lived in fear of other people. I let other people walk all over me just because I was too afraid of the consequences of refusing. I did not know how to refuse”
“The fear of loss … it can destroy you as much as the loss itself”
“Her mother placed a phantom hand over Aelin’s heart. It is the strength of this that matters. No matter where you are, no matter how far, this will lead you home”
“Who do you wish to be? he asked the barely woven tapestry within himself. Let the threads and knots take form, crafting the picture within his mind. Starting small”
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love”
