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41 " 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. "
― S.A. Chakraborty , The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
42 " So you just live quietly with these powers?" he demanded. "Haven't you ever wondered why you have them? Suleiman's eye... you could be overthrowing governments, and instead you steal from peasants! "
― S.A. Chakraborty , The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
43 " Judging from the screams of the mob, Nahri suspected animating winged lions that breathed flames was not a regular occurrence to the djinn world. "
44 " Luck is a fairy tale we use to make people feel better about the world being unfair as shit. "
45 " Nahri was a survivor, and it was time to get to work. "
46 " He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation, like a man clinging to a ledge. "We run. "
47 " To keep walking a path between loyalty to your family and loyalty to what you know is right. One of these days, you’re going to have to make a choice. "
48 " I can count my short reign a success if I manage to convince the two most stubborn people in Daevabad to do something they don't want to do. "
― S.A. Chakraborty , The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
49 " It’s a bit more difficult to hold a grudge over the good days. "
50 " Because I am shafit. That I can wield my magic better than a pureblood, that the sheikh here could spin intellectual circles around the scholars of the Royal Library - that is proof that we're not so different from the rest o f you." He glared at Ali. "It's not a thin I mean to hide. "
51 " I find politics loathsome.” “Do you?” Muntadhir waved about the courtyard. “And what do you think all this is if not politics? I find that those who look on politics with contempt are usually the first to be dragged down by them. "
52 " In terms of identity? I’m a commercial fantasy writer, looking to entertain my audience with fantastical tales that mix history with myth and magic. That’s something humans have been doing for a very long time, and I like being part of a long tradition of storytelling, whether that’s ancient tales shared around a campfire or modern podcasts....I’m currently editing a scene that involves winged lions and smoke-conjured armor, so I’m not certain I’m the best writer to ask about truth. But that being said, words and stories have great power and I think setting a scene that pulls from the real world but is set in a fictional one can cause readers to reassess and question things in a way they might not have otherwise. "
― S.A. Chakraborty
53 " Find out what you really are, what really exists in this world. Come to Daevabad where even a drop of Nahid blood will bring you honor and wealth beyond your imagining. Your own infirmary, the knowledge of a thousand previous healers at your fingertips. Respect. "
54 " I am who I am because of that human world. It wasn’t the Banu Nahida who’d driven the peris to their knees, it was the con artist of Cairo, and Nahri wouldn’t cast her away. "
55 " You're young," he said quietly. "You have no experience with what happens to people like us during a war. People who are different. "
56 " The king lifted his dark brows. "This should be an interesting story. "
57 " She can help with your economic policies when you're king.""Yes, that's just what every man dreams of in a wife "
58 " Nahri looked out at the dark garden, her thoughtd roiling. The king was dead, the grand wazir was a traitor, the Qaid was gone, and Ali – the only one of them with military experience – was involved in a mutiny across the city. "
59 " Scattered minds are the enemy of magic. "
60 " Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t. "