The Jasad Crown Quotes

“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

“Weak is a ruler who holds a match to the world and then blames it for burning.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“I always feared you would become like your true mother,” Rawain said. “I stayed vigilant for what you might have inherited from Hanim. In my worst nightmares, I never thought you would take after Isra. As weak and—” “Weak is not a mother who throws herself between a boy with none of her blood and the wrath of the man who made him.” Arin wiped the blood dripping onto his lashes. “Weak is a ruler who holds a match to the world and then blames it for burning.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Why hadn’t they told him that love was not a soft and gentle wind, but a storm determined to rip you apart and build its home in the wreckage? That it brought with it uninvited guests, new fears and worries and paranoias beyond the reach of any reason.
How in those early days, before he knew what was happening, he would lose his breath at the thought of a future without her. A future where the guests would be gone, but so would his new home. The home she had carved inside him, where the air smelled like her hair and the bells sounded like her laugh. A place where he could rest until he was old and weary, where he could only sleep with his hand settled over her heart, because even so many years later, that steady pulse was the only pillar Arin would ever lean on.
Death, he learned, did not change anything. It didn’t destroy their home; it simply barred Arin from entering. It meant years waiting on the steps.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“If your magic takes you, I will drag you back. It cannot have you.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Have you considered, in that infinite mind of yours, that the truly brilliant people are the ones who understand the realities we build were already built for us?”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“All of me is written in your name, he wanted to say.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Kill everyone in the vicinity if you die? Seek revenge on anyone who allowed it to happen? Maybe he wouldn’t have before. But I told you—he is coming apart at the seams. When the world stops making sense, you cling to the only thing that does.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Arin sat among his ghosts and dreamed of his future.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Yes, Jasad means body. Yes, it also means corpse. What this kingdom becomes—whether it breathes or suffocates, lives or dies—is a question only it can answer.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“A frog watched me from the edge of Hirun.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“What. Happened.” The question—if one could call it that—came torn from between his teeth.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Let him come, and I would show him what it meant to hunt Essam’s favorite monster.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“it was, in Arin’s opinion, cruel of his mind to decide it could feel carpets again.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“You lied to your father,” I blurted. Why enjoy a moment when I was just so good at ruining them?”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“I will sit in on the meeting,” I said. “But do not expect me to do more than observe.” “My, my!” I raised my hands over my head and clapped. “If the goal is to expedite your own gruesome murders, I must say—you have all applied yourselves to the extreme.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown