Top 150 Hafsah Faizal Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”

— Hafsah Faizal

2. “Why?” she asked in a broken voice. “Why is everyone so eager to leave me?”

— Hafsah Faizal

3. “There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.”

— Hafsah Faizal

4. “Be as victorious as the name I have given you, and bring the desert to its knees.”

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5. “He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars.”

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6. “My girl will wield weapons, and she will wield them well, for it takes a special kind of courage to hold power and know when not to use it.”

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7. “An empty life is a fate worse than death.”

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8. “If he’s the darkness, then you’re his moon, and the moon wasn’t made to be caged.”

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9. “My mother once said that just as our eyes tailor to the darkness, so do our souls.”

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10. “There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence.”

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11. “The brush of lips against the back of her neck.”

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12. “Do you ever wonder why women focus so much on me?” “Maybe because you resemble a lost, rabid dog,” the dark-haired one suggested in perfect seriousness.”

— Hafsah Faizal

13. “Death is the one thing certain in human life. Why does it still come as a surprise when it happens?”

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14. “Knowing you can lose something is what makes it more precious.”

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15. “There was a kind of sand, rare in the desert, that appeared as harmless as normal sand until it sank beneath one’s feet, swallowing the unsuspecting, worsening the longer they did the opposite. That was how grief was. The longer one wallowed, the more it hungered.”

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16. “I thought I’d lost you both. Don’t do that again,” she whispered. “I like the sound of your heart.”

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17. “A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”

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18. “We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.”

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19. “My bride. My queen. My fair gazelle,” he said in the barest shred of a whisper. “Cannot all three be one and the same?”

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20. “A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.”

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21. “Love is for children, said the girl. Death is for fools, said the shadow. Darkness is my destiny, said the boy. Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle. Suffering is our fate, said the beauty. And they were all horribly wrong.”

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22. “You are the compass in the storm, the guide in the dark. You will always find your way.”

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23. “You do it for them. For them to love you.” She opened her mouth to protest, but he cut her off. “We’re so quick to dismiss the sentiment as weak, but hearts beat for love, don’t they? A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”

— Hafsah Faizal

24. “They say the soul cannot rest until it finds its match. Then it ignites.”

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25. “No one truly measured a mother’s touch until they could no longer feel it. No one missed a mother’s love until the well was depleted.”

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26. “If only you knew what it was like to feel the weight of your gaze,” he said, half to himself.”

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27. “We’re a zumra. We hunted the flame together, found the light in the darkness, but we were far from done, laa? Now we unleash it. We free the stars, shatter the darkness holding us captive, and return the world to the splendor it once was.”

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28. “He knew of a person who would take her to the ends of the world, if only she would ask. He would take the stars from the sky and fashion them into a crown, if only she would have it.”

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29. “Together, we will raise the dunes from the earth, and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything.”

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30. “What did it mean when a monster became human?”

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31. “A flower. White and whiskered in a fringe of ice. Silken petals held together in a loose grip.”

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32. “Heart of my heart. Moon of my soul.”

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33. “You’ll have me. No matter how thick the night, I will always be there to light your way.”

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34. “If I told you my name, would you bow?” His voice was soft. A melancholy caress. He lifted his chin when understanding dawned on her face. “Or would you flee?”

— Hafsah Faizal

35. “If you want me obedient, prince, kill me and carry my corpse.”

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36. “If you’re going to save the world, you might as well do it in style!”

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37. “I am falling in love with you, and I don’t know how to stop.”

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38. “He didn’t live. He existed. And no one understood the difference between the two until they ceased to live.”

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39. “This was pain worse than a sword. This was forgetting and then remembering everything afresh, the curse of memories.”

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40. “That was life, wasn’t it? A collection of moments, a menagerie of people. Everyone stranded everywhere, always.”

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41. “Only few can look at a monster and see it’s humanity.”

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42. “To live was to swear the oath of death. A cup from which every soul was destined to drink. So why, then, did it feel like she had been cheated? As if she had gambled away something precious?”

— Hafsah Faizal

43. “Congratulations, Huntress. You’re officially a murderer. Welcome to the club.”

— Hafsah Faizal

44. “Well,” Altair said with forced cheer. “It’s just the two of us again, and my, what a couple we make.” Nasir gifted him a look that could wither crops. “Keep up your endless yipping and only one of us will be left.”

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45. “Hope, he had learned, arrived swiftly, seeking to bloom in the darkest of places and in the most harrowing of times.”

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46. “Tears aren’t a measure of heart. We grieve in different ways.”

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47. “To my mother, for shaping my heart, and my father, for hardening it to steel.”

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48. “I have always wished for someone to take matters into her own hands... to prove to our caliph that a body is only a body and that a soul determines one’s actions.”

— Hafsah Faizal

49. “The first step to getting anywhere is believing you can.”

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50. “He inclined his head, and the clouds parted so the moon could see his smile.”

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