40 Best Quotes From ACOMAF by Sarah J Maas

This post shares some of the best quotes from the book A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas.

These quotes are only from the second book in the series. Check out the related posts section for the other installments!

If you’re like me, you’ve finished the series and still can’t stop thinking about it. Wishing you could live between the pages, constantly looking up fan art and quotes to relive the experience.

Whether this is your first time reading the Beauty and the Beast retelling or you’re just looking for some great quotes before you move on to the next book, we got you covered!

Pin for Later!

Below, you will find my favorite ACOMAF quotes from the second book in the ACOTAR series. The rest of the series can be found below in the Related Posts section.

Buy the Book Series Here!

Related Posts

Best Quotes From A Court of Thorns and Roses

Best Quotes From A Court of Wings and Ruin

Best Quotes From A Court of Frost and Starlight

Best Quotes From A Court of Silver Flames

Best Quotes From ACOMAF

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.” Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”

“He thinks he’ll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”

“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”

“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”

“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”

“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would not be weak, or helpless again. I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”

“I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you.”

“My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.”

“There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful…There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.”

“She is my mate. And my spy,’ I said too quietly. ‘And she is the High Lady of the Night Court.'”

“If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate.”

“No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.”

“There you are. I’ve been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at all, not a threat to keep those faeries away. Thank you for finding her for me.”

“And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.”

“And so Tamlin unwittingly led the High Lady of the Night Court into the heart of his territory.”

“Hello, Feyre darling,”

“My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds.”

“And I realized—I realized how badly I’d been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I’d been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”

“I painted stars and the moon and clouds and just endless, dark sky….I never knew why. I rarely went outside at night—usually, I was so tired from hunting that I just wanted to sleep. But I wonder … I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or someone who burned like fire—but that I would be quiet and enduring and as faceted as the night. That I would have beauty, for those who knew where to look, and if people didn’t bother to look, but to only fear it … Then I didn’t particularly care for them, anyway. I wonder if, even in my despair and hopelessness, I was never truly alone. I wonder if I was looking for this place—looking for you all.”

“I was burning through books every day – stories about people and places I’d never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.”

“And if he had grabbed me?” There was nothing but uncompromising will in his eyes. “Then I would have torn apart the world to get you back.”

“Say it,” I gritted out. “The High Lord of the Night Court is your mate.”

“But then she snapped your neck.” Tears rolled down his face. “And I felt you die,” he whispered.”

“The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares…And the huntress with an artist’s soul.”

“I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.”

“He locked you up because he knew—the bastard knew what a treasure you are. That you are worth more than land or gold or jewels. He knew, and wanted to keep you all to himself.” The words hit me, even as they soothed some jagged piece in my soul. “He did—does love me, Rhysand.” “The issue isn’t whether he loved you, it’s how much. Too much. Love can be a poison.” And then he was gone.”

“I’m thinking…that I look at you and feel like I’m dying. Like I can’t breathe. I’m thinking that I want you so badly I can’t concentrate half the time I’m around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings.”

“You are my salvation, Feyre.”

“Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?”

“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through the fourth and fifth ribs.”

“I will bow before no one and nothing but my crown.”

“But I couldn’t … I couldn’t stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can’t stay away.”

“I love it when you look at me like that.” The purr in his voice heated my blood. “Like what?” “Like my power isn’t something to run from. Like you see me.”

“When Rhys came back, after Amarantha, he was a ghost. He pretended he wasn’t, but he was. You made him come alive again.”

“I`m thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety”

“Where are we going?” Rhy’s smile widened into a grin. “To Velaris—the City of Starlight.”

“I believe you. And I believe in peace. I believe in a better world.”

“Azriel would likely love Mor until he was a whisper of darkness between the stars.”

“I was never afraid of the consequences of being with you. Even if every assassin in the world hunts us … It’s worth it. You are worth it.”

“Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they’re going so much that it’s worth it. Maybe they’ll keep coming back, until there’s only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday—if it keeps coming back often enough—another star will find it again”