370 Quotes by Sabaa Tahir

Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them - or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Her hands, so steady when she stirs vats of jam or braids my hair, flutter like frantic birds, desperate for me to move faster.

You are cruel, Elias,” she whispers against my mouth. “To give a girl all she desires only to tear it away.” “This isn't the end for us, Laia of Serra.” I cannot give up what we could have. I don't care what bleeding vow I made. “Do you hear me? This is not our end.” “You've never been a liar.” She dashes her hands against the wetness in her eyes. “Don't start now.

The voice is deep and soft, not a sound so much as a feeling. It is storm and wind and leaves twisting in the night. It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. But there’s something wrong with this voice, something diseased at its core.

But he never seemed to focus on what could turn out wrong. He only ever thought about how things could turn out right.

Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.

Beauty's a curse when one lives among men