The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2)

by Saara El-Arifi

If you want to kill someone quickly, pierce their carotid artery. If you want to kill someone quietly, sever their trachea. If you want to kill someone in revenge, slit their throat. —Master Inansi to the Sandstorm rebels

The shoemaker goes barefoot, and the weaver goes naked. —Ghosting proverb, meaning to not neglect one’s sense of self

Remember that anger burns like coal, long and slow, and it takes but a spark to reignite the flame. —Griot Sheth

One mother dead, one mother betrayed, and one mother the betrayer.

Freedom is not free. It has a cost. But it cannot be bought or given. Only taken.

“Don’t sell your fish from within the sea,” Niha