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“A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.”
― 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 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

“Promise me,” Yasmine said softly, “that if you die, you will die fighting to return to me.”
― 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

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

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

“But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”
― 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'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

“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

“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

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

“The first step to getting anywhere is believing you can.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“I'll have to introduce you by saying, 'He's not always this grumpy. Then again, he's one of those people who talks less and murders more'.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“People lived because she killed.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“People died because he lived.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“His mother used to say that a person without hope was a body without a soul.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“The living can't survive with promises to the dead.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Who decides what's out of reach, if not we ourselves?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Confidence breeds freedom.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A life without purpose is no life at all.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You are the compass in the storm, the guide in the dark. You will always find your way”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life