Top 100 Renee Ahdieh Quotes
#1. You are - remarkable. Every day, I think I am going to be surprised by how remarkable you are, but I am not. Because this is what it means to be you. It means knowing no bounds. Being limitless in all that you do.
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#2. I am in no mood for boorish men. Or their warmongering. "Weapons
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#3. I love you, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. There is nothing I would not do for you. Nothing I would not consider if it meant keeping you safe. The world itself should fear me if it stands between us.
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#4. We are as a rose unfurling, becoming more clearly ourselves
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#5. Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me and by my father. But, most of all, by Shazi. With her, he is as fiercely loved as he loves.
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#7. Do you think you're invincible? That you live off nothing but fresh dew and cold fury?
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#8. Prove that a real man doesn't make a show of what's his. It just is." "Is
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#9. Understood what it meant to feel at home wherever you were. To feel as though you belonged in any moment, at any place, in any time.
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#10. That is not the way of it. Your future is not set in stone, my dearest star. A coin turns on itself a number of times before it lands.
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#11. Shahrzad paused. Then made a decision. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
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#12. I am just curious at heart, and my curious heart has quite a fondness for love stories.
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#13. had always been like that - incapable of withholding the truth but incapable of cruelty. A rare kind of person. The best kind of friend.
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#14. In my life, the one thing I have learned above all is that no individual can reach the height of their potential without the love of others
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#15. Everything was cold, and she chewed from habit rather than enjoyment, but she knew she would regret it later if she went to bed hungry as well as angry.
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#16. People fall in and out of love with the rising and setting of the sun. Rather like a boy who loves the color green one day, only to discover on the morrow that he truly prefers blue.
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#17. It's much easier to hate a memory. I would know.
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#18. Shahrzad took a deep breath. "Tariq - " "I'm not leaving without you!" He spun around and pulled her against him. "This is not your fight! It never should have been your fight!" At
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#19. When I was in the desert, I woke each day and carried on with my life, but it wasn't living; it was merely existing. I want to live. You are where I live.
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#20. Two stubborn lovers, protecting each other from the very same threat.
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#21. I learned I have a great deal to learn." Reza
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#22. Hate. This girl hated him with all the violence Khalid felt in his heart. Hated the very sight of him. Hated everything he was with everything she had. Her hate was a thing of glory. She was not afraid. Why isn't she afraid? His
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#23. Is that kind of disrespect... normal?"
"It's not normal. But it's not unexpected. It's the curse of being a woman".
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#24. Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness. "I've always loved them for their beauty and their scent, but--"
"It's because of their thorns." His muscles tensed at her touch. "Because there's more to them than first meets the eye.
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#25. The only power any man has over you is the power you give him.
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#26. Then - without another sound - the beast glided toward her. Like a ghost. Like a demon of the forest, flying on a whorl of black smoke. Mariko's
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#27. I've always believed a man is what he does, not what others say.
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#28. In her ear, he whispered, "Do better than this Shazi. My queen is without limitations. Boundless in all that she does. Show them.
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#29. Jalal," she said, "I can explain."
"There's no need."
"I'm not - "
"I told you; there's no need." He spoke simply. "I trust you.
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#30. I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.
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#31. With everyone else, he was chipped ice on a mountain. With her sister, he was a summer breeze across the sea. Alas,
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#32. Every day, I think I am going to be surprised by how remarkable you are, but I am not. Because this is what it means to be you. It means knowing
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#33. What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?" he whispered.
"If I'm a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed." The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest.
"No." His hands dropped to her waist. "Destroy me.
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#34. Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent.
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#35. It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.
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#36. Moments spent in idleness were moments left to thought. Moments left to memory.
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#37. You are free to leave, as well." Khalid resumed his trek toward his chamber.
Jalal cut it front of Khalid. "You look terrible." His eyes were bright, and his forehead was lined with worry.
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#38. Loss is loss. And the lesson is always the same.
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#39. For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.
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#40. For all his dour black and stern expressions, all the whispered rumors of trick swords and cold brutality, he did not appear worthy of genuine fear. He appeared bored with life. Bored and in need of a nap.
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#41. Do not live in fear, Khalid-jan, for that is not a life.
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#42. Sometimes," he gasped, "the family you choose...is stronger than blood.
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#43. The tears and the pain all but blinding her, she forced open her eyes one more time, to a curtain of dark hair; to a waterfall of black ink spilling across the last page of her life.
No.
I'm not nothing.
I was loved.
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#44. Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmth crept up Shahrzad's neck. "Knows about what?"
Despina grinned. "The Caliph of Khorasan going into the gardens at dawn alone. And returning with a single rose.
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#45. The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.
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#46. She was not a half. She was wholly her own.
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#47. Those many quiet moments reminiscing on days long past. On memories ever present. "May
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#48. Sharzad was rewarded with one of his uncommonly effortless smiles. The kind that changed a face of shadows into one of light".
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#49. A shared history does not entitle you to a future, my friend.
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#50. For his children, he would move mountains.
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#51. And how will you know when you've found this elusive someone?" Shahrzad retorted.
"I suspect she will be like air. Like knowing how to breathe." He regarded her with the stillness of a hawk as he said these words, and Shahrzad's throat went dry.
"Poetry," she whispered. "Not reality.
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#52. Against all odds, I feel a drop of sympathy . . . amidst a sea of hatred." "Khalid.
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#54. If I am marching to my death, then I will march to it as a girl. Without fear.
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#55. Love was something that did much to change a person. It brought joy as it brought suffering, and in turn brought about those moments that defined one's character.
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#56. I love you, she said. Khalid lifted his head to hers. She placed a hand against his cheek. Beyond words.
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#57. There is potential for boundless good in the boy I knew. Trust that the man you see now is a shadow of what lies beneath. If you would, give him the love that will enable him to see it for himself. To a lost soul, such a treasure is worth its weight in gold. Worth its weight in dreams.
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#59. Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?"
"Just one, my child. Just one."
"It must be a special book."
"All books are special, dear.
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#60. A true plague of a girl. And yet a queen in every sense of the word.
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#61. It must be said. These truths, no matter how harsh, must be said.
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#62. You sent Shahrzad away with a boy I would not trust with a dying snake.
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#63. When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she knew, as he knew, that they were lost. Lost forever. In this kiss. This kiss that would change everything.
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#64. It's never been a question of who is going to let me behave a certain way; it's always been a question of who is going to stop me. I thank you for answering it.
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#65. Some things do not have to be said. You didn't have to tell me you were in love with Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. And I didn't have to tell you I cried myself to sleep for weeks after you left. Love speaks for itself.
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#66. But I'm not here to fight. I'm here to win.
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#67. That's quite gallant of you. After you've ignored me for the better part of a week, like a boy half your age with twice your charm.
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#68. A girl willingly donning a crown of death. A small girl with immense courage. Immense hate. Why
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#69. But you do laugh too loud. And I hope you never stop." Despina
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#71. Such is the way of rumors. We are often the last to know the ones in our honor.
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#72. She refused to die like an animal locked in a cage. Like a girl with nothing to save her name. Better to die by the sword. Better to die at the mercy of the nightbeasts. To die in the night air. Free.
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#73. Stay or go. I leave it to you. But you are welcome always. In all ways.
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#74. You don't know the beginning of me." She trembled as she spoke. "And . . . you will never see the end.
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#75. Today he'd intentionally wandered too far. Wandered away from those who hovered around him like flies to a carcass.
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#76. I believe when you truly love someone, you want what's best for that person.
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#77. Do better than this, Shazi. My queen is without limitations. Boundless in all that she does. Show them." Her pulse raced
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#78. A trickle of blood slid down his arm.
He felt nothing. He only saw it.
Because nothing hurt like missing her.
He suspected nothing ever would
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#79. I've missed the silence of you listening to me." Shahrzad attempted a weak smile. "No one listens to me as you do." His expression turned quizzical. "You don't wait to speak," she clarified. "You truly listen." "Only to you," Khalid replied gently.
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#80. The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
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#81. Anything is possible so long as there is a strong will behind it.
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#82. This dangerous girl. This captivating beauty.
This destroyer of worlds and creator of wonder.
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#83. We women are a sad lot, aren't we?"
"What do you mean?"
"Strong enough to take on the world with our bare hands, yet we permit ridiculous boys to make fools of us."
"I am not a fool."
"No, you're not. Not yet.
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#84. Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight
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#85. For a mistake was only a mistake if it was left to remain so.
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#86. Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.
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#87. You are first and foremost a person. A reckless, foolish person, but a person nonetheless. If I ever say you are not permitted to do something, rest assured that the last reason I would ever say so would be because you are a girl.
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#88. It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
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#89. Until nothing at all existed between them.
But shared breaths.
And unspoken promises.
Lies.
And unshakable truth.
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#90. But I do know I can't remember the last time I wanted something so much," he finished in a quiet voice.
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#91. I won't ask for forgiveness, but I am so very sorry," he said, with the simple brevity she was learning to expect. She pressed her lips into his soft, dark hair. "I know." He
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#93. Beauty fades. But a pain in the ass is forever.
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#94. Are you also going to inform me I need to be as swift as a fire so I may move mountains in the wind?" Yoshi
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#95. Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.
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#96. It was never about belonging to someone. It was belonging together.
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#97. You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?
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#98. So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?"
"Shazi?" Jalal's grin widened. "Honestly, I pity the wolves.
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#99. if you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down
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#100. Sometimes we must fall forward to keep moving. Remain motionless - remain unyielding - and you are as good as dead.
Death follows indecision, like a twisted shadow. Fall forward. Keep moving. Even if you must pick yourself up first.
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