Saba Mumtaz

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“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

“The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“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