Top 150 Hafsah Faizal Quotes (2024 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. “Life was a dance to a tune he could not hear.”

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53. “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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54. “Remain in the shadows and serve the light.”

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

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

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

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58. “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?”

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

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60. “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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61. “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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62. “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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63. “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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64. “Death will be her companion. He’s kept her safe all this time. Why stop now?”

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

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

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

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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “He lived for his orders. For the mistake he made in not heeding them.”

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

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73. “Darkness is my destiny.”

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74. “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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75. “You are your strength.”

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

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77. “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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78. “What was the point of a throne and a crown and the power it wrought, if he was powerless?”

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79. “Confidence breeds freedom.”

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80. “Monsters preferred solitude.”

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

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

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83. “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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84. “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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85. “Whose touch on her forehead had been gentle.”

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86. “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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87. “I just think that once you’re bound to another, you change. That for the happiness of the one you love, and for your own, you change without knowing it.”

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

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

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

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

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93. “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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94. “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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95. “Should I sing prettily while I slit your throat?”

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96. “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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97. “He left behind half of his soul and the whole of his heart.”

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

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

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100. “Before that beautiful heart that harmed none and loved too much-stopped.”

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