Nilaaa

“I sit and I read and I wait for the end of the world.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“I wish I had a good reason for saving you. I wish it was logical or rational, informed by any semblance of reason. I wish more than anything my first thought when I emerged from the water was not of you, that I hadn’t been prepared to tear through every grain of sand and burn every tree in this damned place until I found you.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“I wanted to stay there. I wanted to tell him that I had not easily embraced anyone for a while now. That even though one day I would kneel before Jasad's judges in the afterlife to account for it, I would not renounce a single moment of loving the Nizahl Heir.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“She would wait for him at every sunrise. Thousands more. And he’d come to her in more than dreams. He’d come to her. He would find her as he had always found her.”
― Wendy Heiss, The Last War We Ever Fought