91 Quotes by Jessica Khoury

I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink.

The universe sings a deep, eternal song, sound in waves, in deep sighs, in whispers, in swirling chords and rising, falling tones. The music of the worlds, weaving in a pattern that is both chaos and order, both beauty and terror, without beginning, without end.

We mourn what has been lost, and tomorrow, we rise.

You've ruled before, so tell me, does it get easier?""No, but you get stronger.

What good is it Habiba, to deny the truth? Your friendship woke something in me all those centuries ago, some dormant humanity that had lingered through the years, and after you died, it recoiled and hid again.But Aladdin has woken it once more. With his sun-bright smile and his laughing eyes and his way of asking the hardest kind of questions. After you, I swore to never love again.But I love him.And so I must let him go.

He alone can meet my eyes without disgust or fear. He alone still sees the girl inside the monster. But it is not enough.

So this is what it feels like to have all your wishes come true.

You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it.

All the world is in your shadow, Zahra.