Top 150 Hafsah Faizal Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “This was pain worse than a sword. This was forgetting and then remembering everything afresh, the curse of memories.”

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

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53. “Emotions don’t define us. It’s what you do with them that’s important.”

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54. “Malevolence spilled from the woman like morning mist.”

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55. “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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56. “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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57. “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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58. “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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59. “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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60. “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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61. “He inclined his head, and the clouds parted so the moon could see his smile.”

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

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

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

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66. “Monsters preferred solitude.”

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67. “Sometimes, when you live a life of captivity, trapped for so long, freedom becomes a thing to fear.”

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68. “His mother used to say that a person without hope was a body without a soul.”

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

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

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

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

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75. “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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76. “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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77. “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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78. “Should I sing prettily while I slit your throat?”

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79. “That last thought was what made Nasir nudge Altair’s bare bicep with the toe of his boot. Altair’s right eye popped open instantly and Nasir clenched his jaw – he should have known. “For a moment, I thought you might do it,” Altair said. “Do what?” the girl asked. She yawned as she brushed her teeth with a siwak. Altair’s mouth curled into a grin. “Kiss me.” Nasir kicked him, and Altair’s laughter only increased.”

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80. “The world was meant to be salvaged by the ones it had wronged.”

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

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82. “I would rather die at a merciful hand then live a monstrous life.”

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

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

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85. “The beauty that withstands all. Stubborn in the harshest of atmospheres.”

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86. “Were all monsters lonely, he wondered, pretending to be aloof and unafraid? Was it that falsity that nurtured them, cultivating them with careful precision, unique and unmatched?”

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87. “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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88. “He lived for his orders. For the mistake he made in not heeding them.”

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89. “Darkness is my destiny.”

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90. “A life without purpose is no life at all.”

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91. “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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92. “It was hard to do good when it would be shadowed forever by his wrongs.”

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93. “You are your strength.”

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

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95. “He knew the weight of anguish that could drown a city in sand. He knew that look, that feeling. To watch a loved one suffer. To know one could have done so much but can now do nothing at all. It was the feeling that made him stop feeling.”

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96. “Confidence breeds freedom.”

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

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99. “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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100. “I thought your overuse of words was a side effect of seasickness. If I had known you’d talk so much, I wouldn’t have come along.”

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