Top 98 Sabaa Tahir Quotes
#1. The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.
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#3. All evil here. Monsters. Little monsters and then big ones.
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#4. So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
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#5. Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us.
This should be interesting
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#6. Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.
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#7. Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head.
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#8. I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff's night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.
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#9. She takes my arm like an old friend would. "Welcome to the Waiting Place, the realm of ghosts. I am the Soul Catcher, and I am here to help you cross to the other side.
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#10. Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep.
"You are my temple", I murmur as I knee beside her. "You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release."- Elias
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#11. But you are not finished. You are my masterpiece, Helene Aquilla, but I have just begun. If you survive, you shall be a force to be reckoned with in this world. But first you will be unmade. First, you will be broken.
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#12. I'd say it's impossible, but the Commandant trained the word out of me.
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#13. Laia is the wild dance of a Tribal campfire, while Helene is the cold blue of an alchemist's flame.
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#14. 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.
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#15. After I pull my eyes away from her, I realize that I'm not the only one dumbstruck. Many of the young men around me sneak glances at her. She doesn't seem to notice, which, of course, makes her all the more intriguing.
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#16. 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.
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#17. His eyes are unfathomably sad as he lifts my chin. "Most people," Cain says, "are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn." "Just
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#18. You're sure this is what you want?" I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells
"I'm sure"
"Then I'll find a way
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#19. So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?
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#20. your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making." Elias
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#21. I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
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#22. You fool, Helene. When you love, there is always more pain.
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#23. You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.
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#24. Just because he's a good leader doesn't mean he's a good person.
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#25. So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful.
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#26. Perhaps I have become so accustomed to the burden of secrets that I do not notice their weight until I am free of it.
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#27. There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.
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#28. I should just build a bleeding house here," I mutter as I pick myself up off the snow-covered ground. "Maybe get a few chickens. Plant a garden.
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#29. I do not doubt, I do not hesitate. I am the Lioness's daughter, and I have the Lioness's strength.
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#30. The thought appears in my head, but I hardly know what I means.
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#31. Shadows will bloom in your heart, and you will become everything you hate.
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#32. Children are born to break their mothers' hearts, my boy.
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#33. Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone.
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#34. Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.
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#35. I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.
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#36. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged, but it's there. Don't let them take it from you, Elias.
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#37. Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
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#38. You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.
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#40. There will be so much more in between. So much uncertainty. I don't know if we'll survive the catacombs, let alone the rest of it. But it doesn't matter. For now, these steps are enough. These first few precious steps into darkness. Into the unknown. Into freedom.
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#41. If your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making.
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#42. Too much fear and you're paralyzed. Too little fear and you're arrogant.
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#43. Who is my brother now? When did he transform from the boy who made me too-sweet tea to a man with secrets too heavy to share with his little sister?
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#44. Few people want witnesses to their pain, and grief is the worst pain of all.
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#45. There is more to this life than love, Helene Aquilla. There is duty. Empire. Family. Gens. The men you lead. The promises you make.
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#46. Now it hits me. This is it. This is the end. Martial tradition says a soldier who dies well dances among the stars, battling foes for all eternity. Is that what awaits me? Or will I slip into endless darkness, unbroken and quiet?
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#47. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.
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#48. This is what it means to have faith, to believe in something greater than yourself." A
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#49. Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.
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#50. Nan always said that as long as there is life, there is hope.
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#51. I recognize the smell - his smell - spice and rain.
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#52. For tonight, maybe we can just be Laia and Elias.
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#53. The stars are so different when you're free.
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#54. True suffering lies in the expectation of pain as much as in the pain itself.
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#55. But I'm not strong. I'm weak, and I'm sick of pretending I'm not.
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#56. For Kashi,
who taught me that my spirit
is stronger than my fear
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#57. Once, I'd have wanted that. I'd have wanted someone to tell me what to do, to fix everything. Once, I'd have wanted to be saved.
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#58. In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in its cold arms.
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#59. Veturius is a Mask like the rest of us, yes. Bold, brave, strong, swift. But those were afterthoughts for him. Elias sees people as they should be, not as they are. He laughs at himself. He gives of himself - in everything he does. [...] He's the things that I can't be. He's good.
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#60. The voice is deep and soft, not a sound so much as a feeling. It is storm and wind and leaves twisting in the night. It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. But there's something wrong with this voice, something diseased at its core.
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#61. She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.
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#62. 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.
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#63. She makes for the closest training building, and I take my time following, watching the way she moves: angry, favoring her right leg, must have bruised the left in practice, keeps clenching that right fist - probably because she wants to punch me with it.
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#64. I don't look at the wound. I don't need to. I watched the Commandant as she carved it into me, a thick-lined, precise K stretching from my collarbone to the skin over my heart. She branded me. Marked me as her property. It's a scar I'll carry to the grave.
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#65. I will tell you the same thing I tell every slave. The resistance has tried to penetrate this school countless times. I have discovered it every time. if you are working with the resistance, if you contact them, if you think of contacting them, I will know and i will destroy you.
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#67. Elias and I are finished. Now, there is only death.
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#68. She chuckles again. "Because sane plans never work, girl," she says. "Only the mad ones do.
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#69. I know what it is to lose those you love. I taught myself not to feel anything at all. For so long that it wasn't until I met you that
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#70. Fear can be good, Laia. It can keep you alive. But don't let it control you. Don't let it sow doubts within you. When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.
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#71. Elias and Laia are each other's countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note.
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#72. Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time - that's permanent.
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#73. I don't need to believe in the supernatural, not when there's worse that roams the night.
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#74. The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.
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#77. A bloody gloaming then, and bloodier still as twilight fades to dawn.
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#78. Secrets are a snake's way of doing business." "And snakes survive,
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#79. You will be chained to the darkness within yourself as surely as if chained to the walls of a prison cell.
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#80. So long as you fight in the darkness, you stand in the light.
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#81. Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.
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#83. Laia. The Scholar girl. Another ember waiting to burn the world down,' she says. 'Will you hurt her too?
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#84. Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.
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#85. You - you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you."
"Does that bother you?"
"Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.
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#87. It will get better. You'll never forget them, not even after years. But one day, you'll go a whole minute without feeling the pain. Then an hour. A day. That's all you can ask for, really." His voice drops. "You'll heal, I promise.
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#88. Where there is life, Nan used to say, there is hope.
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#89. You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.
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#90. When you love, there is always more pain. "Men
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#91. Three thousand bodies swing forward, three thousand pairs of boots snap together, three thousand backs jerk as if yanked straight by a puppeteer's hand. In the ensuing silence, you could hear a tear drop.
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#92. All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.
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#93. So many bleeding, stupid questions. Do girls think like this all the time? No wonder they're so confusing.
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#94. Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?
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#95. Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.
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#96. You're not like the others. You killed to save. You put others first.
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#97. The problem with greedy people, Pop once said to me, is that they think everyone else is as greedy as they are
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#98. Rise, Elias Veturius." Tas smacks my face, and I blink at him in surprise. His eyes are fierce. "You gave me a name," he says. "I want to live to hear it on the lips of others. Rise." I
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