Kennan Quotes

“Tell me something about her," he whispers. "Something good."
"I didn't know anything." My voice cracks, and I clear my throat. "I knew her for weeks? Months? And I never even asked her anything worthwhile about her family or what it was like when she was young or- or what she wanted or what she hoped for. Because I thought we had more time.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“What is there to live for if not the moments of joy? What is there to fight for?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“An aroma of cedar and lemon fill my senses, and I return to a cellar miles to the north, where a red-haired boy I loved made me feel less alone. I have spent so long hating the Nightbringer that I never mourned who he used to be. Keenan, my first love, my friend, a boy who understood my loss so deeply because he had endured his own.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm