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“Go steal some happiness for yourself, my friend," she said shortly. "Trust me when I say the chance doesn't always come back.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Kingdom of Copper

“It is not always easy to do the right thing. More often than not, it is a lonely, thankless ordeal. That does not mean it is not worth doing.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

“For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“I find I can get a more accurate measure of a man when he’s not aware he’s being appraised.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“To keep walking a path between loyalty to your family and loyalty to what you know is right. One of these days, you’re going to have to make a choice.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“I can count my short reign a success if I manage to convince the two most stubborn people in Daevabad to do something they don't want to do.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Kingdom of Copper

“Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“You have been blessed; you have been granted the power, the privilege, the time—all these centuries you don’t want—to fix things. And when you finally do face our Creator, do you want to say you spent them wallowing in guilt?” Kartir’s expression grew fierce. “Or would you rather say you spent every extra breath fighting for a more just world?”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“She wanted to tell them not to. It hurt worse to see your dreams destroyed than to never have them at all.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“People do not thrive under tyrants, Alizayd; they do not come up with innovations when they're busy trying to stay alive, or offer creative ideas when error is punished by the hooves of a karkadann.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Kingdom of Copper

“Ali’s expression instantly grew stormy. “I didn’t say he was going to burn in hell,” he defended. “I suggested he repent before that happened.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Kingdom of Copper

“She told me to keep myself whole. That there wasn’t any shame in taking care of yourself in order to help those who needed you.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“That made it worse, this passing of a barbed baton between women who, no matter how clever, how powerful, would always be known by the men to whom they were attached.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“Find your happiness, little thief. Steal it and do not ever let it go.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“Dara hesitated and then spoke. “If what I have seen is true, it means there is peace for the worst of us. Rest for those who do not deserve it. It was beautiful. And it spoke to a mercy this world does not deserve.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“I envy you sometimes, she said softly. "I wish I had your faith in people's goodness." [Nahri e-Nahid]”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“For a people who honored the ascent and descent of the sun, marking the first and last glimpse of its burning orb with quiet gratitude to their Creator, this time farthest from its presence was meant for being safe and asleep with their loved ones, a fire altar burning to keep the demons out. But Dara had no loved ones and was a demon himself, so here he was.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“It's not haunted". Wajed countered. "It simply... misses its founding family."

"The stairs vanished under me the last time I was there, uncle," Ali pointed out. "The water in the fountains turns to blood so often than people don't drink it."

"So it misses them a lot.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass