91 Quotes by Jessica Khoury

It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything around me a little brighter. Hope.

Your mother has the mind of a genius and the eyes of a child. You won't find better than that.

Goodbye, Zahra,” says the princess, and she pulls her arm back, preparing to throw the lamp.“Do it, Princess,” says a voice, “and I will tear your head from your shoulders.

It's time for both of us to be free.

A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.

Love.Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and I never knew it. Until ow. When I hear it on his lips, I know as I can never know anything else - no numbers, no formulas, no scientific names - I know it's true. A piece slides into place in my heart, filling a hole I never knew existed.

...there is a somewhere else after this, where everyone drinks elysia and lives forever.

Get control of yourself, Zahra!My name isn’t Zahra. I am Smoke-on-the-Wind, Curl-of-the-Tiger’s-Tail, Girl-Who-Gives-the-Stars-Away.He loves you!He is just a mortal. Just a boy, a moment in time that will soon pass. His name is Aladdin.I have known a thousand and one like him. I will know a thousand and one more. He is nothing.He is everything.

This has been the great lesson of my long life: To love is to destroy.