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Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2) QUOTES

Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2) QUOTES

1 " I am afraid for you!” His voice was vicious. His pulse burned beneath her hand. “If anything happens to you here and I live, I will read every book, every tome, I will trick death itself to bring you back. I will become something terrible, not for your sake, but mine, because I cannot live in a world without you in it. "

― Tasha Suri , Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)

2 " She had been molded and erased and silenced for safety. She had been denied the truth for safety. Her history had been cleaved almost in two, for safety. They had almost broken her, for the sake of making her safe, for the sake of their love for her, and she would carry the wound of it all her life. "

― Tasha Suri , Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)

3 " She had blamed Mehr because she had been ignorant. Because she’d known nothing. "

― Tasha Suri , Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)

4 " 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)

5 " 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. "

― Tasha Suri , Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)

6 " 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. "

― Tasha Suri , Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)