Nilaaa

“I wish I had a good reason for saving you. I wish it was logical or rational, informed by any semblance of reason. I wish more than anything my first thought when I emerged from the water was not of you, that I hadn’t been prepared to tear through every grain of sand and burn every tree in this damned place until I found you.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“I wanted to stay there. I wanted to tell him that I had not easily embraced anyone for a while now. That even though one day I would kneel before Jasad's judges in the afterlife to account for it, I would not renounce a single moment of loving the Nizahl Heir.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“I sit and I read and I wait for the end of the world.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“Listen. It's okay. We asked for so much didn't we? We wanted to touch the stars, and look at what we did. There's nothing more we could ask from the universe, of this God you always talk about, than that. So it's okay. It is fine. Okay, Joan? For me, as long as you all know what you meant to me, it all worked out fine.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere