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“Pa-tro-clus”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Philtatos” He said sharply. Most beloved "Best of men and slaughtered by your son.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“The last thing I think is: Achilles.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Thief.”

“Obviously.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“We are all a god’s chosen, and a god’s cursed.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Broken Throne

“If you hurt her—”
“If I hurt her, I will bring every weapon at my disposal and lay them at your feet for you to do to me what you will. If I hurt her, I will no sooner carve out my own heart than dare draw breath again.”
She was silent.
“Do you understand?” he prompted.
“You love her.”
No, he did not love her. The word for what he felt for Zafira bint Iskandar did not yet exist.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Habibi. Hayati. Roohi.
My love, my life, my soul, the words meant, but their meanings went deeper than that.
Habibi was for friends and love that was real enough.
Hayati was when love became an all-encompassing thing. Deeper and deeper, until one became the others life.
Roohi was when a soul twined with its match and loved with the force of a thousand suns. When it slipped beneath the heart and tangled in the very fibres of an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Prince of Death, Demenhune Hunter. Titles don’t tell you who a person is.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Only a fool wouldn’t love her. After all that she’s endured and all that she’s lost, she still fights for a world that failed her.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from struggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks—weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we’re old enough to grasp them. So we fight because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won’t go down without one.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“If I hurt her, I will bring every weapon at my disposal and lay them at your feet for you to do to me what you will. If I hurt her, I will no sooner carve out my own heart then dare draw breath again.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Wars could wage and swords could cut and arrows could pierce. None of them compared to the pain of a well-poised word.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“He didn’t want to be another moment stolen from a thousand. He wanted every sunrise and every crescent moon. He wanted to be the reason for every rare blush, the cause of every breathless sigh.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“My bride. My queen. My fair gazelle," he said in the barest shred of a whisper. "Cannot all three be one and the same?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Why do you cry? Zafira whispered.
Roohi, roohi, roohi. He stitched her soul anew. Because my heart cannot contain it.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Darkness doesn’t need to be destroyed. We need the dark as much as we need light. It makes us bold, as much as it makes us afraid.” She smiled.
“Darkness needs only to be tamed.”
“Tame me,” he said in desperation. Shadows bled from his fingers.
Marry me. Love me. Be with me.
“Be mine, wholly and utterly.”
She lifted an eyebrow. “What if I want you to be mine?”
“Fair gazelle, jewel of my soul, I was already yours. I’ve changed for you. I’ve—”
“But I like you just the way you are,” she whispered. “Scarred, deadly, and
beautiful.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“She's going to want to wear your skull for a hat," Oak warns.
There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment.
"And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it’s like hope.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir