37 Quotes About Kusha

Humans have evolved after the Apocalypse and the war, just like her machine-bugs evolve fighting toads in Meera’s wild garden. Some people progress more than the others; they’re the High-Grades. Seven years in excessively comfortable Gaumont Manor cannot help you grow. If you’re a bug, you need toads—dozens of toads so you may evolve.

When a prayer doesn’t work, you rephrase it.

Kusha forces the thought away. Some things shouldn’t be downloaded even as subconscious alarms, she thinks. Two prophetic alarms are enough for one morning, she believes. But if she wanted, if she pondered a bit more on the thought, if she focused on her alarms, she could’ve caught another important prophecy. Perhaps, it’d have avoided many things. Perhaps, she could be cautious of what she gets attached to in the future. Perhaps, it would’ve never created this story.

Rashad will never let her attend the auction if he hears about the death alarm. He believes in her alarms. Everyone does.

How do you know these things?” Taha shouts, “Brain? Mind? Guts? Soul? You said you’ll teach me!

If you start afresh with a fully blank brain, like a newborn, you’ll have a lot to catch up on. Sometimes, it won’t be cute. Sitting weirdly, spreading your legs—unaware of your briefs showing, or asking your new parents why their lips are glued together, isn’t cute.

... The Devil’s Book. The only book in the world she sees in her dreams, daydreams, and nightmares. The only book that may have the secrets of voice, the real ones, and not the boring jargon page after page that only tickles your curiosity and tells you the things you already know.

Taha rolls her eyes. With her short skirt and pink tank-top, no one imagines how invincible she is during combat. Her door-sign reads: Don’t ditch pink to act strong—in pink font.

Kusha silently groans; envy is rude.