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The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

by S.A. Chakraborty (Goodreads Author)

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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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“To live and never to understand the strange and beautiful mysteries of the human heart is to make a tragedy of our lives.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

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“You, like everyone, are but a single light dancing at the whim of cosmic forces.”
― Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword

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“I have looked upon the ocean, she wrote. And it made me recall the tale of a river. And of a fish, searching for a new world on its bank. And I remember a tale of garlands. And ill stars. And two people who found their way to one another.”
― Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword

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“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that I am reading. You're every poem I've ever loved.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

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