Zafira Iskandar Quotes

“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

“...and he laughed a laugh she loved more than the warmest of fires on the coldest of nights.”
― 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

“The beauty that withstands all. Stubborn in the harshest of atmospheres.”
― 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

“We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from struggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks—weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we’re old enough to grasp them. So we fight because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won’t go down without one.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“He’s a murderer. And she was starting to forget that he was.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“How long must one live before one ceased to remember their own name?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You are your strength.”
― Hafsah Faizal

“But death listened to no one, not even the Amir al-Maut. And Nasir watched as her butterfly wings fluttered once, and Zafira Iskandar fell to the ground, a silver star driving the light from his world.
His yesterdays and his tomorrows, gone just like that.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars