Manzar Rzayeva > Manzar's Quotes

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am grateful you're alive", he said. "I am grateful that you're beside me. I am grateful that you're eating."
She rested her head on his shoulder.
"You're better that waffles, Matthias Helvar."
A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips.
"Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves

- responsibility”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“you ask
if we can still be friends
i explain how a honeybee
does not dream kissing
the mouth of a flower
and then settle for its leaves”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“I will no longer
compare my path to others

-I refuse to do a disservice to my life”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“I don't know what shocks me more--- the power in my voice or the words themselves”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Run by the king’s army, the stocks act as our kingdom’s labor force, spreading throughout all of Orïsha. Whenever someone can’t afford the taxes, he’s required to work off the debt for our king. Those stuck in the stocks toil endlessly, erecting palaces, building roads, mining coal, and everything in between. It’s a system that served Orïsha well once, but since the Raid it’s no more than a state-sanctioned death sentence. An excuse to round up my people, as if the monarchy ever needed one. With all the divîners left orphaned from the Raid, we are the ones who can’t afford the monarchy’s high taxes. We are the true targets of every tax raise.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

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

“Heart of my heart. Moon of my soul.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Be as victorious as the name I have given you, and bring the desert to its knees.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“If I told you my name, would you bow?” His voice was soft. A melancholy caress. He lifted his chin when understanding dawned on her face. “Or would you flee?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Darkness is my destiny.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Monsters preferred solitude.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Promise me,” Yasmine said softly, “that if you die, you will die fighting to return to me.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Malevolence spilled from the woman like morning mist.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Maybe the tiny lions were merely ornaments, a display of pride for the victory over a man who defied men, only to be slain by women.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“He came here for one act alone: murder.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A flower. White and whiskered in a fringe of ice. Silken petals held together in a loose grip”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“The beauty that withstands all. Stubborn in the harshest of atmospheres.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“...and he laughed a laugh she loved more than the warmest of fires on the coldest of nights.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A monster. For a monster will always be enslaved to a master.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“And only those watching very carefully saw the Caliph of Khorasan lean back against the cushions and toy with the bangles on his wife’s arm.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn