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1 " Not wanting to be destroyed by despair doesn’t make you a coward. It makes you a survivor. "
― S.A. Chakraborty , The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
2 " If you rule by violence, you should expect to be removed by violence. "
3 " She told me to keep myself whole. That there wasn’t any shame in taking care of yourself in order to help those who needed you. "
4 " I do not believe ambitious men who say the only route to peace and prosperity lies in giving them more power—particularly when they do it with lands and people who are not theirs. "
5 " You bet on whether or not I kissed your wife?" Ali was aghast. "What is wrong with the two of you?" When his brother and sister only cackled harder, he drew up. "I hate you. "I hate you both. "
6 " I find I can get a more accurate measure of a man when he’s not aware he’s being appraised. "
7 " That made it worse, this passing of a barbed baton between women who, no matter how clever, how powerful, would always be known by the men to whom they were attached. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Luck is a fairy tale we use to make people feel better about the world being unfair as shit. "
10 " Nahri was a survivor, and it was time to get to work. "
11 " 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. "
12 " 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. "
13 " Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t. "
14 " Kan wa ma kan, "
15 " Find your happiness, little thief. Steal it and do not ever let it go. "
16 " 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. "
17 " For Nahri was going to bring forth a world in which her mother would have been free. "
18 " 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. "
19 " 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. "
20 " 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. "
