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“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

“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

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

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

“He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars. (...) For that was what scars were, weren’t they? A remembrance of moments dark.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

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

“This was pain worse than a sword. This was forgetting and then remembering everything afresh, the curse of memories.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“...in this moment, we are two souls, marooned beneath the moon, hungry and alone, adrift in the current of what we do not understand. We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves... You remind me that hope is not lost.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

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

“If only you knew what it was like to feel the weight of your gaze,” he said, half to himself.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Do you ever wonder why women focus so much on me?” “Maybe because you resemble a lost, rabid dog,” the dark-haired one suggested in perfect seriousness.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You do it for them. For them to love you.” She opened her mouth to protest, but he cut her off. “We’re so quick to dismiss the sentiment as weak, but hearts beat for love, don’t they? A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“I once loved”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Well,” Altair said with forced cheer. “It’s just the two of us again, and my, what a couple we make.” Nasir gifted him a look that could wither crops. “Keep up your endless yipping and only one of us will be left.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Will there ever come a time when you won't see me as a monster?' he asked suddenly.
She stopped at the softness of his tone, so unlike the unfeeling prince she had come to know. Some part of her wanted to reach for him, to smooth away the unhappiness creasing his face, to touch the scars that made him him.
'Monsters cannot become men,' she whispered instead, and the darkness hummed its agreement.
He exhaled through parted lips, and his unhappiness only increased. 'Of course. That was selfish of me.'
That does not mean I cannot love a monster.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“But the safi did not understand that freedom was sometimes a burden of its own.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You are not weak. You are not indecisive. You are strong. Fierce. Capable beyond measure.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“It’s a fitting punishment for a monster. to want something so much—to hold it in your arms — and know beyond a doubt you will never deserve it.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“you are boundless, there is nothing you can't do.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else’s hands. But, if you don’t, how will you ever truly know a person?”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“The worst kind of lie—the kind shrouded in good intentions. The kind cowards use to justify their weakness.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“There is a vast difference between meaning to do something and actually doing it.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“I have learned above all is that no individual can reach the height of their potential without the love of others. We are not meant to be alone, Shahrzad. The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“But I'm not here to fight. I'm here to win.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“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.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Do you think you’re invincible? That you live off nothing but fresh dew and cold fury?”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn