Fa Quotes

“he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful.

For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but I wasn't going to bow to him. Neither of us moved.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

“o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“All is indeed a Blessing
IF you can just see beyond the veils; for it is ‘all’ an illusion and a test, and one of the greatest Divine Mysteries of this life cycle.”
This IS my constant prayer, my mantra, my affirmation, reverberation, reiteration and my ever-living reality.”
― The Divine Prince Ty Emmecca

“Without them, one’s status as an adult is never secure; a childless adult creates adulthood for himself , and as exhilarating as it often is, it is also a state of perpetual insecurity”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I refuse to believe that we’re going to go through life without something magical happening”
― Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

“there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“That’s what being a mother is, isn’t it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It’s looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again—mother.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“some people are lonely for all the right reasons.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“Don't you think you guys should stop clinging to one another and get serious about adulthood?" But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I am the master of my destiny.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Children are touched by heaven—their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Then, remembering that strange sword just to her side, she leaned over the mountain edge to inspect it. The hilt was dull with age, but still gold, with short wings at the base of the blade that pointed forward. It had to be hundreds of years old.
Mulan was about to leave it, but there was something inscribed on the blade itself. She could see only the first word. It was the same as in her name: Fa. Flower.
Curious now, she reached down and tried to wrench the sword free. It was stuck tight.
"Let me help." Shang knelt beside her and clasped the edge of the hilt. Together, they pulled. Out slid the sword. The weight of it nearly tipped Mulan over the mountain, but she caught herself in time and backed up away from the ledge.
Catching her breath, she laid the sword on the grass, wiping it clean of dirt and grime. The characters on the blade glittered in the moonlight.
"'The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Reflection

“An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied.
Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls. Saleem had only bits and pieces of his father, mostly the memories of a young boy. He would spend the rest of his life, he knew, trying to reconstruct his father with the scraps he could recall or gather from his mother.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“But war had a taming effect”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Which one would you choose, the rock or the hard place?”
― Meg Rossoff

“I go there sometimes in my mind, to that cemetery in Radom, to pretend they're all laid to rest there, to tell them I have not forgotten them, to tell them that despite the death that separates us and the events that tore us apart, we have triumphed. We have triumphed because the love we shared, the light of their lives, survives- it survives in me and the love I have for Irene- it survives in our son and his wife Julie- and it survives in our three grandchildren. The love of our family will survive for generations.”
― Nancy Sprowell Geise, Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

“A failure failure is the one who the enemy hacked his Twitter account so that he can keep quite.”
― Ademola Adejumo