Maryam

“The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Why are you taking this so personally?”

“Wouldn’t you?”

“I have no idea. I’ve always been beautiful.”

“And humble too?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“A new wound can take a body. Opening an old one can claim a soul.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold