Top 180 Hafsah Faizal Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from struggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks – weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we’re old enough to grasp them. So we fight because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won’t go down without one.”

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

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

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55. “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.”

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

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57. “For that was what scars were, weren’t they? A remembrance of moments dark.”

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58. “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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59. “Death will be her companion. He’s kept her safe all this time. Why stop now?”

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60. “He would not fear the darkness. He was the darkness.”

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61. “It was a feeling unmatched, to be sought by another.”

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

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63. “Darkness doesn’t need to be destroyed. We need the dark as much as we need light. It makes us bold, as much as it makes us afraid.” She smiled. “Darkness needs only to be tamed.”

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64. “I have always wished for someone to take matters into her own hands,” he said, an odd tone to his words. He studied her as he spoke. “To prove to our caliph that a body is only a body and that a soul determines one’s actions. Yet here we are, aren’t we, Huntress?”

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65. “There were some bonds that remained no matter how they were tested.”

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

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67. “That does not mean I cannot love a monster.”

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68. “Only a fool wouldn’t love her. After all that she’s endured and all that she’s lost, she still fights for a world that failed her.”

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69. “You will always find your way, Zafira bint Iskandar,” the woman said. She sounded almost sad, though the glint in her eyes was anything but. “Lost you should have remained, cursed child.”

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70. “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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71. “Malevolence spilled from the woman like morning mist.”

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72. “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?”

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

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74. “To live was to swear the oath of death.”

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75. “You were told to hunt down the lost Jawarat, and here you are, like moths hunting a flame, blindly reaching for mirage to break the decade’s-long curse over our lands.”

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76. “Life was a dance to a tune he could not hear.”

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77. “I’m sorry,” he whispered, and though they were two short words that could be meaningless, she knew they were anything but. Not from him. Not from the boy who rarely spoke at all, making each word he uttered worth a thousand from anyone else.”

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78. “His stories were filled with blood and darkness, horrors and terrors. Whenever Umm scolded him with a teasing smile, Baba would say that lies would take his little girl nowhere. That was also what he had said when he put a bow in Zafira’s still-baby-soft hands and taught her how to loose an arrow. And so she was given the truth, even in the years when she would look upon everything with a veil of innocence.”

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79. “Monsters preferred solitude.”

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80. “May your hearts remain entwined beyond death.”

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81. “His dark thoughts scattered when Zafira laughed. It freed him. Reached into that crevice between his rib cage and gave him life. A vial of light undeterred by the dark, a sound he would bring down cities to hear again, wild and free.”

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82. “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.”

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83. “Whose touch on her forehead had been gentle.”

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84. “Feelings had transpired without permission, conspired without his brain, working with what was left of his heart.”

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85. “Where are the hearts?” she asked. He’d last had them. “With Kifah,” he answered, and closed the door behind her, closing away the entire world.”

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

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87. “I understand in some way,” she corrected. “To have words collect on your tongue, but feel as if they aren’t worth voicing. To feel as if no one wants to listen.”

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88. “Perhaps they were all monsters, masquerading in costumes of innocence.”

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89. “Perhaps it’s meant to be accepted,” Nasir reflected quietly. “Not everything requires a battle, least of all grief.”

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90. “You needn’t fear the darkness when you can become it.”

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91. “But the safi did not understand that freedom was sometimes a burden of its own.”

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92. “Hope was the beast that could never be slain, the light that blazed in every harrowing dark.”

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93. “He looked strong and powerful beneath this new sun. Neither was a world she had ever before used to describe him. But today he looked different. Today she felt a fool for not seeing him as she should have. Funny how eyes worked.”

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94. “There is no man in Arawiya more loyal to the Hunter than I.”

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95. “It was the emptiness that was doing this. He had been given a taste of the opposite, of contentment and satisfaction and fulfillment, and he had started to forget the feel of nothing. The way it made him exist outside of himself. The way it made him cease to exist at all.”

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96. “How can something so painless as the loss of memory hurt so much?”

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97. “I’ve never seen a face more open,′ he said with a soft laugh before growing intent, stealing her breath. ‘You do it for them. For them to love you.”

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98. “So you thought to spare her. Did you think this was your chance for redemption? Silly boy, darkness is your destiny. You were born for hell.”

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99. “Stranger isn’t it,” said Nasir, who was never one for contemplation. “How the darkness brought us together, and the light will let us fall apart?”

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100. “Maybe the tiny lions were merely ornaments, a display of pride for the victory over a man who defied men, only to be slain by women.”

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