370 Quotes by Sabaa Tahir

Too much fear and you’re paralyzed. Too little fear and you’re arrogant.

I have survived this feeling before, and I will survive it again. In this fiery hellscape of a world, this mess of blood and madness, justice exists only for those who take it. I’ll be damned if I’m not one of them.

She feels out the melody the way a blind man feels his way forward in an unfamiliar room.

This is a bad idea,” he murmurs. We’re so close that I can see a long eyelash that’s landed on his cheek. I can see the hints of blue in his hair. “Then why aren’t you stopping it?” “Because I’m a fool.” We breathe each other’s breath, and as his body relaxes, as his hands finally slide around my back, I close my eyes. Then.

The simulacrum tilts its head, just like Darin used to. “They’re hurting me, Laia.” It’s not Darin. My mind is slipping. This is guilt, fear. The voice changes, twisting and layering as if there are three Darins all talking at once. The light in the fake-Darin’s eyes goes out as quickly as a sun in a storm, and his irises darken into black pits, as if his entire body is filled with shadow. “I won’t survive it, Laia. It hurts.” The.

Remember that fate is never what we think it will be.

There is a price for greed and violence. We do not always know who will pay it. But for good or ill, it will be paid.

This is no band of thieves. It’s the Resistance.

I’m not alone.′ Laia buries her face in her mother’s hair. ‘I thought I was all that was left of us.