370 Quotes by Sabaa Tahir

Rise, Elias Veturius.” Tas smacks my face, and I blink at him in surprise. His eyes are fierce. “You gave me a name,” he says. “I want to live to hear it on the lips of others. Rise.” I.

And his champions, those three flames in which he placed all his hopes – Laia of Serra, Helene Aquilla, and Elias Veturius – I smother those flames. For I have taken the Blood Shrike’s soul. The Waiting Place has taken the Soul Catcher’s humanity. And I will crush Laia of Serra’s heart.

Your fear is good. It makes your story real.

The woman in the mirror is not Helene Aquilla. She is the Blood Shrike. The Blood Shrike is not lonely, for the Empire is her mother and father, her lover and her best friend. She needs nothing else. She needs no one else. She stands apart.

Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.

I do not doubt, I do not hesitate. I am the Lioness’s daughter, and I have the Lioness’s strength.

I don’t need to believe in the supernatural, not when there’s worse that roams the night.

Sometimes loneliness is a choice.

After I pull my eyes away from her, I realize that I’m not the only one dumbstruck. Many of the young men around me sneak glances at her. She doesn’t seem to notice, which, of course, makes her all the more intriguing.