Top 150 Hafsah Faizal Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “If you’re going to save the world, you might as well do it in style!”

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

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

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

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

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

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61. “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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62. “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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63. “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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64. “For that was what scars were, weren’t they? A remembrance of moments dark.”

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65. “Who decides what’s out of reach, if not we ourselves?”

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

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

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

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

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

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72. “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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73. “Monsters preferred solitude.”

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

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75. “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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76. “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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77. “May your hearts remain entwined beyond death.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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87. “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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88. “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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89. “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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90. “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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91. “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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92. “Should I sing prettily while I slit your throat?”

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93. “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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94. “But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”

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95. “If he was what it felt like to be lost to the darkness, she never wanted to be found again.”

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

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97. “All right’ is when you’re bleeding black but it’s not as bad as bleeding red. When the world crashes but you’re not alone when it does. When the darkness is absolute but you hunt down the smallest flame and coax it brighter. When you carve the good out of every bad and claim it a victory.”

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98. “Wars could wage and swords could cut and arrows could pierce. None of them compared to the pain of a well-poised word.”

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

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100. “Confidence breeds freedom.”

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