A Sky Beyond The Storm Quotes

“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Thank you, Soul Catcher.”
“Elias,” he says after a moment, the slightest bit of warmth entering those cold gray eyes. “From you I prefer Elias.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“I have defied him and survived him again and again. He has tried to hurt me. But I will not allow myself to be hurt. He has tried to break me but I will not be dictated to by a man so afraid to fight the jinn that he must criticise a woman to make himself feel bigger.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“What a small thing it seems, to walk with the one you love. To look forward to a day with them. I marvel at the simplicity of this moment. And I thank the skies for the miracle of it.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Sometimes, there is no reason. Sometimes you kill and you hate killing but you are a soldier through and through so you keep killing. Your friends die. Your lovers die. And what you have at the end of your life is not the surety that you did it for some grand reason, but the hard knowledge that something was taken from you and you also gave it away. And you know you will carry that weight with you always. For it is a regret that only death can relieve.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“No one wants to fight for nothing.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“I need you to disappear. To never leave. I need to have never met you or felt you. You. You. You. I need you.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“I stare out at the desert, a speck of nothing against its vastness. These rocks, this dirt, it will abide for millennia, while I am but a moment in time that will be over all too soon. The thought is crushing, and I cannot breathe.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm