Saba Mumtaz

“You will be chained to the darkness within yourself as surely as if chained to the walls of a prison cell.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Three thousand bodies swing forward, three thousand pairs of boots snap together, three thousand backs jerk as if yanked straight by a puppeteer's hand. In the ensuing silence, you could hear a tear drop.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“But even a watched pot cannot absorb heat for ever.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

“Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It’s not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister