Baylie

“This tale is the gibbet in the square... The blood on the cobblestones. It is the K carved into a Scholar girl’s skin. The mother who waited thirty years for her child. The agony of a family destroyed. This tale is a warning. And it is a promise kept.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“For the Beloved who woke with the dawning of the world is no more. And for a single, anguished moment, the earth itself mourns him.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“I have to spend the rest of my life finding ways to deserve a certain white-haired girl. She’s very prickly, occasionally puts goose droppings in my shoes or tries to kill me.”
“Sounds fatiguing,” I managed as his lips met mine.
“She’s worth it. And one day maybe she’ll let me chase her into a chapel.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I've known him all my life, Harper. But when I was crawling through that tunnel, when I knew he was fighting and dying for me, all I could think was that I was so thankful it wasn't you up there. Because if it had been, we'd have died together.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm