Sabaa Tahir Quotes

“As long as there is life, there is hope.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“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

“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be. Too much fear you're paralyzed, Too little fear and you're arrogant.”
― Teluman

“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 think about the shit we've read in school. Those books all about one problem. A kid who's bullied. A kid who's beaten. A kid who's poor. And I think of us and how we've won the shit-luck lottery. We have all the problems.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“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

“I miss you." I hope she hears what I'm truly saying. I love you. I'm sorry. I wish I could fix it. "I'll always miss you. Even when I'm a ghost.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“I miss you." I hope she hears what I'm truly saying. I love you. I'm sorry. I wish I could fix it. "I'll always miss you. Even when I'm a ghost.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“Rise, Elias Veturius.” Tas smacks my face, and I blink at him in surprise. His eyes are fierce. “You gave me a name,” he says. “I want to live to hear it on the lips of others. Rise.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“Tell us a story. Something scary.” She shivers in anticipation, and Cook makes a strange sound that could be a laugh or a groan. “Life isn’t scary enough for you, girl?”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I miss you." I hope she hears what I'm truly saying. I love you. I'm sorry. I wish I could fix it. "I'll always miss you. Even when I'm a ghost.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night