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41 " I will call for the physician,” he said, and in that she heard a wealth of things: his fear that he had, perhaps, hurt her and by extension hurt the child within her. The belief that all she’d said was a product of her flesh—her pregnancy, her so-called womanly weakness of heart and body—and not evidence of her intelligence, her political acumen, and all that she was. "
― Tasha Suri , The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms, #1)
42 " I have never heard that story," Arwa said. "Not once. I would remember it.""And yet, it has not truly been forgotten. Its ghost squats within us. We place it in grief, our walls. We seed it in our women. There is nothing finer, after all, than being a sacrifice. Stories have great power. Give a story blood, let its roots settle, and any tale can bear fruit. "
― Tasha Suri , Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)
43 " You are not a weapon made of your blood. You are a scholar and a solider who has not broken herself upon her cause--only grown stronger and stronger with every blow the world has dealt her. "
44 " I have always made myself into what was required of me. I have always belonged to someone else. My father, my mother, my husband. And I think I want something- someone- that is mine. "
45 " There was no void in her any longer. Whatever she was— weapon, monster, cursed or gifted— she was whole. "