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"‘You’re a nuisance just like your father and sister, desert whore,’ he sneered, though the name had never disturbed her.

She had never seen the desert."

When the racist can't even racist correctly 😔

I'm so sleep deprived that I completely skipped over their wedding wtf

I can't get over how they're fucking right after their family were massacred lmao

‘Because if we stay and fight, if we choose to go ahead with our plans, it has to be for honourable reasons. It cannot be because you are in pain, and angry, and seeking to return it to others.’

After their people were massacred?? Nah bro

"There was an extra layer of venom in the foreigners who had gone to such lengths to learn her own language to insult her."

Damn

"He fought only for a moment, and Aicha felt oblivious to his thrashing as she held on to him with a grip so tight her nails broke the skin. She stabbed at his clavicle, his chest, anywhere that she could reach.

More!

Over and over and over."

Kill him! 😈

(Posted for the wrong book. Y'all saw nothing lmao)

I'm enjoying this so far but it's a lot more older YA than I thought it'd be

"‘It is not good to constantly miss prayers; how many times must I tell you this?’ he said, and Aicha shot him a look.

‘You do when you are in the workroom.’"

Girl

"‘Is there any line that you will not cross for our freedom?’

Aicha paused, unsure whether Naima wanted the answer, because usually people did not. The idea of freedom was always more alluring than the knowledge of what was required to achieve it. Your hands became coated in blood, your soul sullied, all in the name of liberation."

Hell yeah

"Shawafas were forbidden. Their ability to liaise with the dead and jinn, to look into what lay in the future, was a blasphemy in Islam. They were desired, sought after and feared."

I'm down for anything blasphemous 🙊 astaghfirullah