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161 " 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. "
― Sabaa Tahir , A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
162 " Safety is an illusion never to trust. "
― Sabaa Tahir , An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
163 " Needing protection is not a weakness. Refusing to trust your allies is. "
164 " Strange, how silence can speak as loudly as a scream. "
165 " When Hel and I were Fivers, a Barbarian raiding party took us prisoner. I was trussed like a festival-day goat, but they tied Helene's hands in front of her with twine and propped her on the back of a pony, assuming she was harmless. That night, she used the twine to garrote three of our jailers and broke the necks of the other three with her bare hands.“They always underestimate me,” she said afterward, sounding puzzled. "
166 " Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head. "
167 " Emifal Firdaant,' I say to him.'You've said that before. What does it mean?'I cannot quite look at him when I say it. 'May death claim me first.''Ah, no, my love.' He gathers me close. 'You cannot go first. I could not make sense of the world if you did.'With that, he closes his eyes, but I cannot sleep. I stare up at the peak of the tent and listen to the rain drum down on the canvas. Emifal Firdaant, I beg the skies. Emifal Firdaant. "
― Sabaa Tahir , A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes, #4)
168 " Sometimes loneliness is a choice. "
― Sabaa Tahir , A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
169 " The stories we tell have power, of course. But the stories that go untold have just as much power. "
170 " So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful. "
171 " When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart. "
172 " Strange how monsters can reach from beyond the grave, as potent in death as they were in life. "
173 " Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. "
174 " Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone. "
175 " She has no idea how pretty she is—or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent—like fruit and sugar. "
176 " For tonight, maybe we can just be Laia and Elias. "
177 " My brother is still fighting, and his screams slice right through me. I know then that I will hear them over and over again, echoing in every hour of every day until I am dead or I make it right. I know it. "
178 " You cannot walk in the shadows as long as I have and not become one. "
179 " Willpower alone cannot change one’s fate. "
180 " The stars are so different when you're free. "