Sara Hashem > Quotes

“I wanted to stay there. I wanted to tell him that I had not easily embraced anyone for a while now. That even though one day I would kneel before Jasad's judges in the afterlife to account for it, I would not renounce a single moment of loving the Nizahl Heir.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“Try again," he said.
"What?"
"Think of a better lie. You're capable of it.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“Most people feared what they were capable of doing, but I... I was starting to fear what I was capable of ignoring.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“I didn't say that those things reminded me of safety and comfort. Two things that, in a painfully ironic twist of fate, I had come to associate with him.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“All your choices require sacrifice. The question is, what are you willing to lose?”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“You think your mind is a blank slate, where you can build your own networks of information from scratch, through pure logic and reason. You ignore that each child enters a completely unique world, founded on different truths. We build our reality on the foundation our world sets for us. You entered a world where magic is corrosive and Jasadis are inherently evil. I entered one where turning a shoe into a dove made my mother laugh. Have you considered, in that infinite mind of yours, that the truly brilliant people are the ones who understand the realities we build were already built for us?”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“I could go anywhere I wanted, but my destination would always be him. He had made himself the threshold to a world where it might finally be safe to land. To stay.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Vaun represented a type I despised above all else. The kind of solider who thrilled in the ounces of power the colors on his uniform lent him. The kind for whom inflicting misery was not a byproduct of necessity, but the purpose.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“May we lead the lives our ancestors were denied.”
― Sara Hashem

“Power hoarded where it doesn't belong is power borrowed, and I intend to collect on the debt.”
― Sara Hashem

“You think your mind is a blank slate, where you can build your own networks of information from scratch, through pure logic and reason. You ignore that each child enters a completely unique world, founded on different truths. We build our reality on the foundation our world sets for us. You entered a world where magic is corrosive and Jasadis are inherently evil. I entered one where turning a shoe into a dove made my mother laugh. Have you considered, in the infinite mind of yours, that the truly brilliant people are the ones who understand the realities we build were already built for us?”
― Sara Hashem

“The dead rarely leave this world empty handed”
― Sara Hashem

“For the truly enlightened among us are those who understand that the realities we build were already build for us.”
― Sara Hashem

“In the measure of monster and man, what tips the scales?”
― Sara Hashem

“If I were a sensible woman, I would slit your throat while you slept.”
― Sara Hashem

“When you choose who you are willing to fight for, you choose who you are”
― Sara Hashem

“But a temper that ignites as quickly as yours leaves ashes in its wake. I need only follow the trail.”
― Sara Hashem

“If only he knew the truth. If only he was capable of believing it.”
― Sara Hashem, Le Trône ardent T1: L'héritière de Jasad

“In the measure of monster or man, what tips the scales?”
― Sara Hashem

“If they couldn't truly touch each other, this approximation of it... the intimacy of this violence between them would suffice.”
― Sara Hashem

“If you let it, fear will make ruins of the future. You will build the rest of your life on the grave of every good thing you might have had, if only you had let yourself try.”
― Sara Hashem