68 Quotes by S.A. Chakraborty

Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t.

I find I can get a more accurate measure of a man when he’s not aware he’s being appraised.

He looks like he belongs here, she thought. Like a ghost forgotten in time, searching for its long dead-companions.

That made it worse, this passing of a barbed baton between women who, no matter how clever, how powerful, would always be known by the men to whom they were attached.

She told me to keep myself whole. That there wasn’t any shame in taking care of yourself in order to help those who needed you.

My name is Banu Manizheh.

A new, rather grisly lesson in Daevabad’s history.” Nahri made a face. “Just once, I’d like to learn of an event that was nothing but our ancestors conjuring rainbows and dancing in the street together.

Dara hesitated and then spoke. “If what I have seen is true, it means there is peace for the worst of us. Rest for those who do not deserve it. It was beautiful. And it spoke to a mercy this world does not deserve.

If you rule by violence, you should expect to be removed by violence.