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“The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

“What is next to ecstasy?"
"Pain."
"What is next to pain?"
"Nothingness."
"What is next to nothingness?"
"Hell.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

“When darkness, layer by layer, descends on the soul,
Your light then does with greater brilliance glow.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

“Undaunted, they cross the darkness
Whose brows are illumined by your brilliance.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

“Do you understand, brother? You’ll have me. No matter how thick the night, I will always be there to light your way.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“There was a kind of sand, rare in the desert, that appeared as harmless as normal sand until it sank beneath one’s feet, swallowing the unsuspecting, worsening the longer they did the opposite. That was how grief was. The longer one wallowed, the more it hungered.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Only few can look at a monster and see it’s humanity.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“They'll tell stories about us, he had said.
There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Sometimes, when you live a life of captivity, trapped for so long, freedom becomes a thing to fear.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“All right’ is when you’re bleeding black but it’s not as bad as bleeding red. When the world crashes but you’re not alone when it does. When the darkness is absolute but you hunt down the smallest flame and coax it brighter. When you carve the good out of every bad and claim it a victory.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“I once loved”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Would that we all knew the cracked terrain of each other’s broken hearts. Perhaps then, we would not be so cruel to those who walk this lonely world with us.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Can I kick him?" my brother asks. "I'm going to kick him."
"He saved your life Darin."
"A small kick," he argues. "It wouldn't even hurt him. Look at him, skies. It would probably break MY foot."
"NO."
"Fine." Once past Elias, my brother turns around and mimes a kick, grinning.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Sky Beyond the Storm

“Nightbringer was the name humans gave him. Along with the King of No Name. But before that, he had another name.
“Meherya,” I say. “Beloved.”
He howls then, an echoing cry that breaks something inside me. But still, he hides away, for he is not the Beloved anymore either. He has turned his back on his duty and humanity. On Mauth.
But in truth, humanity turned against him first. And Mauth, who should have loved the Meherya best, did nothing when his son and all that he cherished were destroyed. The Nightbringer gave Mauth everything—and Mauth repaid him with a thousand years of torment...
“Nirbara,” I whisper. “Forsaken.”
He turns.
“Forsaken by humans and by Mauth,” I say, and the maelstrom grows more violent with each word. “Forsaken by the Scholars, who you sought only to help and who stole all that you loved. Forsaken by Rehmat, who left you alone with all your pain.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“We must understand the creatures, fey or human, who populate our tales. Respect them. Love them, despite the villainous things they do. We must see them. Else how will our stories echo in the hearts of those who hear them? How will the stories survive beyond one telling?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Sky Beyond the Storm

“We are, all of us, just visitors in each other’s lives.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“For the Beloved who woke with the dawning of the world is no more. And for a single, anguished moment, the earth itself mourns him.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“No matter how rich and varied the lives of humans, they were falling stars in my world. They flared bright and brief, and then they burned out.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
"So?" said Kaz.
"Well, usually it's just half the city.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“And if doing what’s right makes someone angry with me, then may I cause rage and fury wherever I go.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Captive Kingdom

“I made jokes because the alternative was to scream as loudly on the outside as I was on the inside. Because I needed to laugh so that I wouldn't burn with anger at the injustices around me.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Captive Kingdom

“There was no commotion, only me doing a literal somersault across the meeting table and frightening Mistress Kitcher so much that she leapt away and lost her wig. Hence all the screaming. Mine, not hers.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Captive Kingdom