Jordan

“Emifal Firdaant,' I say to him.
'You've said that before. What does it mean?'
I cannot quite look at him when I say it. 'May death claim me first.'
'Ah, no, my love.' He gathers me close. 'You cannot go first. I could not make sense of the world if you did.'
With that, he closes his eyes, but I cannot sleep. I stare up at the peak of the tent and listen to the rain drum down on the canvas. Emifal Firdaant, I beg the skies. Emifal Firdaant.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“You refuse to accept that you do not live in a just world. Sooner or later, you will have to.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“My only comfort is that you never could have been mine. But know that I would have gladly been yours.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“It should have been him dancing with you”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm