Alaa Bahey

“Please stop calling me that. You’re still officially the Master.”
“Oh, I know,” Malik said. “But much like Merit, I find it amusing to irritate you.”
As Malik walked down the hallway and around the corner, Ethan turned his pointed gaze on me.
I shrugged innocently. “I can’t help it if I’m a trendsetter.”
― Chloe Neill, House Rules

“You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold

“Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.” He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. “I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here. You leave me no choice but to appeal to the gods. I demand trial by battle.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones