Hafsah Faizal > Quotes

“We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Heart of my heart. Moon of my soul.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“If I told you my name, would you bow?” His voice was soft. A melancholy caress. He lifted his chin when understanding dawned on her face. “Or would you flee?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Be as victorious as the name I have given you, and bring the desert to its knees.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“If you hurt her—”
“If I hurt her, I will bring every weapon at my disposal and lay them at your feet for you to do to me what you will. If I hurt her, I will no sooner carve out my own heart than dare draw breath again.”
She was silent.
“Do you understand?” he prompted.
“You love her.”
No, he did not love her. The word for what he felt for Zafira bint Iskandar did not yet exist.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Love is for children, said the girl.
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Promise me,” Yasmine said softly, “that if you die, you will die fighting to return to me.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“...and he laughed a laugh she loved more than the warmest of fires on the coldest of nights.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Habibi. Hayati. Roohi.
My love, my life, my soul, the words meant, but their meanings went deeper than that.
Habibi was for friends and love that was real enough.
Hayati was when love became an all-encompassing thing. Deeper and deeper, until one became the others life.
Roohi was when a soul twined with its match and loved with the force of a thousand suns. When it slipped beneath the heart and tangled in the very fibres of an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Darkness is my destiny.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“They say the soul cannot rest until it finds its match. Then it ignites.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You'll have me. No matter how thick the night, I will always be there to light your way.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Monsters preferred solitude.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“He didn't live. He existed. And no one understood the difference between the two until they ceased to live.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Together, we will raise the dunes from the earth, and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Death is the one thing certain in human life. Why does it still come as a surprise when it happens?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“They'll tell stories about us, he had said.
There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“If you want me obedient, prince, kill me and carry my corpse.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“I am falling in love with you, and I don’t know how to stop.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Maybe the tiny lions were merely ornaments, a display of pride for the victory over a man who defied men, only to be slain by women.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You’re like a room full of books. Every time I see you, I discover something new.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Darkness doesn’t need to be destroyed. We need the dark as much as we need light. It makes us bold, as much as it makes us afraid.” She smiled. “Darkness needs only to be tamed.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“He knew of a person who would take her to the ends of the world, if only she would ask. He would take the stars from the sky and fashion them into a crown, if only she would have it.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars