Raji

“Habibi. Hayati. Roohi.
My love, my life, my soul, the words meant, but their meanings went deeper than that.
Habibi was for friends and love that was real enough.
Hayati was when love became an all-encompassing thing. Deeper and deeper, until one became the others life.
Roohi was when a soul twined with its match and loved with the force of a thousand suns. When it slipped beneath the heart and tangled in the very fibres of an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Alastair's gaze flicked to Matthew. "Why," he said, "are you not even wearing a hat?
"And cover up this hair?" Matthew indicated his golden locks with a flourish. "Would you blot out the sun?”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Was I starting to feel evil? Yes, now I was worrying I'd be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“Hast thou gone among the streets of the city and the watchmen there, and found the one thy soul loves?”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron