[Spoiler for A Court of Wings and Ruin] On seeing her true self in the mirror: "It was, perhaps, the one thing I would never show him. Anyone. How I had cowered and raged and wept. How I had vomited, and screamed, and clawed at the mirror. Slammed my fists into it. And then curled up, trembling at every horrific and cruel and selfish thing I’d beheld within that monster—within me. But I had kept watching. I did not turn from it. And when my shaking stopped, I studied it. All of those wretched things. The pride and the hypocrisy and the shame. The rage and the cowardice and the hurt. Then I began to see other things. More important things - more vital. And what I saw, I think - I think I loved it. Forgave it - me. All of it. It was only in that moment when I knew - I'd understood what the Suriel had meant. Only I could allow the bad to break me. Only I could own it, embrace it." - Sarah J Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruinby finnthehuman on Twos[Spoiler for A Court of Wings and Ruin] On seeing her true self in the mirror: "It was, perhaps, the one thing I would never show him. Anyone. How I had cowered and raged and wept. How I had vomited, and screamed, and clawed at the mirror. Slammed my fists into it. And then curled up, trembling at every horrific and cruel and selfish thing I’d beheld within that monster—within me. But I had kept watching. I did not turn from it. And when my shaking stopped, I studied it. All of those wretched things. The pride and the hypocrisy and the shame. The rage and the cowardice and the hurt. Then I began to see other things. More important things - more vital. And what I saw, I think - I think I loved it. Forgave it - me. All of it. It was only in that moment when I knew - I'd understood what the Suriel had meant. Only I could allow the bad to break me. Only I could own it, embrace it." - Sarah J Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin