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“He didn't live. He existed. And no one understood the difference between the two until they ceased to live.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Love is for children, said the girl.
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“They'll tell stories about us, he had said.
There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame