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81 " I’m coming back, Nahri,” he promised. “You’re my Banu Nahida. This is my city.” His expression was defiant. “Nothing will keep me from either of you. "
― S.A. Chakraborty , The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
82 " The new migrants arrived with little more than the clothing on their backs and the traditions of their ancestors, traditions often denounced as perversions by some of the city's more irritated imams. "
83 " It was as though someone had created an image of a person, a man out of clay, but forgotten to give it a final spark of life. He was...unfinished. "
84 " For a people who honored the ascent and descent of the sun, marking the first and last glimpse of its burning orb with quiet gratitude to their Creator, this time farthest from its presence was meant for being safe and asleep with their loved ones, a fire altar burning to keep the demons out. But Dara had no loved ones and was a demon himself, so here he was. "
― S.A. Chakraborty , The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
85 " Shut up, Dara.” And then she kissed him again. "
86 " Zaynab used to spout little water fountains in drinking cups when she didn't think I was watching her. - Hatset "
― S.A. Chakraborty , The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
87 " Relax," Dara urged, looking embarrassed. "The lake knows to behave. We're perfectly safe here.""It knows... Do me a favor," Nahri seethed, glaring at the daeva. "Next time we're about to do something like cross a married-cursed lake that shreds people, stop and explain every step. By the Most High... "
88 " The favorite son of the djinn king, and she’d snatched him back from death. There was power in that. "
89 " Alizayd fucking al Qahtani. "
90 " For Nahri was going to bring forth a world in which her mother would have been free. "
91 " But Nahri was done lying still. As Vizaresh raised the ax again, she called to Daevabad's magic, to the seal, and to her own strength.To the little girl who'd chosen her own name.Her shackles and chains burst apart.He froze mid step. "But your name...""I have another. "
92 " I cannot imagine how we fix all this," he confessed."Bit by bit. I find even the most impossible tasks seem less daunting from the inside. And we all have our own strengths, our roles to play. "
93 " Do you like your men tall, dark, and hostile? "
94 " I should have been more aggressive in my dowry demands, she suddenly thought. Because she had not been paid enough to marry into this family. "
95 " It was done, it was quick. Ali let out a breath he didn’t realize he was holding. "
96 " Along with the lives and memories of hundreds of marid. Rain spirits who danced in the clouds to shatter themselves upon the ground, seeping deep into the earth to join aquifers. Shy stream guardians, darting through quiet ponds and underground springs with webbed hands and turtlelike beaks. Merpeople with shimmering skin and seaweed hair, caught in the nets of humans, hunted and speared. For every lethal marid—ones like Sobek and others who commanded sharks, who lived on the blood of the drowned and warred with the daevas—there seemed twenty gentle ones, protectors not hunters, content with seeing to the tiny aquatic creatures who called their realms home and urging their life-giving waters to sate the surrounding lands and make them flourish. "
97 " 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. "
98 " realize how different she was from the people around her, like being the only sighted person in a world of the blind. "
99 " Why are your arrows pointed at him? Target the girl and see how fast the great Scourge surrenders.” The smile vanished from Dara’s face. “Do that, and I will kill every last one of you. "
100 " No, I wasn’t afraid. I was tired. I’m tired of everyone in this city feeding on vengeance. I’m tired of teaching our children to hate and fear other children because their parents are our enemies. And I’m sick and tired of acting like the only way to save our people is to cut down all who might oppose us, as if our enemies won’t return the favor the instant power shifts.'— Kingdom Of Copper "