Julia

“For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“To keep walking a path between loyalty to your family and loyalty to what you know is right. One of these days, you’re going to have to make a choice.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“I can count my short reign a success if I manage to convince the two most stubborn people in Daevabad to do something they don't want to do.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Kingdom of Copper

“You have been blessed; you have been granted the power, the privilege, the time—all these centuries you don’t want—to fix things. And when you finally do face our Creator, do you want to say you spent them wallowing in guilt?” Kartir’s expression grew fierce. “Or would you rather say you spent every extra breath fighting for a more just world?”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold