Top 250 Misba Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Your plan will backfire. People aren’t ready for this. I’ve seen it. They prefer being blind, living life the way it is, waiting for an end, playing their little life game. And they want to play it safe. You cannot force adventure on everyone, Ruem. You can’t implant wisdom.”

— Misba

2. “Sometimes, curiosity overpowers the warning of danger. It just does. Especially, when the human brain doesn’t have enough memories to measure the level of danger. Because the brain lacks examples, past references. People call it experience. So, when the reference data is few, the only option is to get more of it. Curiosity is an inexperienced brain’s call to collect reference data. Right now, this very human curiosity burns her brain.”

— Misba

3. “The lights glow, sensing a human presence. “Welcome home!”

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4. “In an instant, her muscles, her blood, thousands of lymph vessels, including the inner wounds around her womb, become visible, sensible – not in the way you see with your eyes, but the way you see the things in a book.”

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5. “If you win time, you don’t want to live with one partner for the rest of your life. Until-death-do-us-part happens when time eats your energy to explore.”

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6. “The Auction sells things you won’t find anywhere else, the things that exist only as one piece in the world. And soon, they’ll sell it. The Codex Gigas: a three-feet-tall ancient book some believe the devil himself wrote. Yes, the real devil. Others think the book contains all the secrets of mesmerism. Not that she needs to mesmerize anyone in particular. She only needs to stop stuttering while her new family stares at her.”

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7. “Not that anyone would trouble themselves invading a timber hut in a mangrove forest farther away from the Bay of Bengal.”

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8. “Her list of endless desires never fills the missing base, never lights her purpose.”

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9. “Mob psychology: if the majority laughs, you must laugh too.”

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10. “It’s the 50th Independence Day! All my crushes will give speeches today!” she adds as if no one should need to explain such an obvious thing.”

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11. “Yuan approaches the edge of the cliff. The waterfall feels like a magnet full of untainted energy when his hand has touched something dead. Although, the hand feels energetically cleaner after healing a life with prana. His half-aging, half-youthful skin at the back of that hand has tightened. It looks younger than his other one now. He examines that hand. His skin hasn’t felt this smooth for so long. “Recharge my car,” he says.”

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12. “There are signs of war. The radioactive rain wasn’t natural. I believe they were annihilated.” Mee-Hae utters annihilated so carefully as if someone might hear, as if it’s a cautiously chosen word and not spoken as a part of a casual description.”

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13. “You don’t want to live among the ruins of the Old World, do you? You’d rather unite with the minds who took oaths to live again, to dream again, no matter what color skin they’re wrapped with or which book they believe in. You’d always want to be a part of the New World.”

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14. “Sometimes, idolizing from afar feels safer to the ego.”

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15. “Focusing his mind, he searches for any sign of death in the forest. But nothing. Prana diminishes with death. He won’t know if the dead bird is far away.”

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16. “Junk Land – most of it is trees, hills, and old broken things. At least it has empty air space, open to sky and free from air-traffic. It’s the space that is too costly to be owned by the people living around, and too embarrassing to be owned by the ones who can afford them. It spreads all over the world outside the cities like swollen veins crawling through the flesh.”

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17. “Why are you obsessed with the High Auction?” she asks.”

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18. “His golden skin has gained a texture like an unevolved man in his fifties should. Not bad for a human close to his hundredth year of living.”

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19. “They have the motto ever since the war.”

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20. “She closes her blue eyes as if shutting them will erase her memories – the embarrassing ones, mostly.”

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21. “The Mesmerizer laughs. A few days ago, he gave the same save-the-world excuse to a certain monk. He also made it believable to himself first, just like her. How fast the universe rolls out its dice, he’s hearing it back so soon!”

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22. “Kusha touches her face – again that feeling of phantom ants crawling on her neck, her face.”

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23. “The four tiny lifters at each corner keep the book hovering in the air at the central lounge. As if it’s not a book but a show on his stage. But there’s no stage in the lounge. Not today. Today, the central lounge of Kuhawk – the house where the Mesmerizer lives – is only for the Devil’s Book.”

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24. “If someone knows you are trying to avoid something, why would they ask again? Why would they press? Isn’t that rude? It is rude, according to Learn Basic Manners. It’s a basic manner.”

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25. “When she woke up from a hazy dream of a dancing goddess, she saw a pair of red eyes and flaming strands of blood-red hair in front of her, only to realize it was neither red eyes nor blood-red hair.”

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26. “She looks at Meera’s honey-brown eyes – thick Kajol lining them with ends thinned and pointed. A black Bindu sits at the center of her forehead, and she’s wearing a comfortable Sari today – classic cotton, bought costing a fortune from this month’s Cultural Fair.”

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27. “Kusha silently groans; envy is rude.”

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28. “Humans have evolved after the Apocalypse and the war, just like her machine-bugs evolve fighting toads in Meera’s wild garden. Some people progress more than the others; they’re the High-Grades. Seven years in excessively comfortable Gaumont Manor cannot help you grow. If you’re a bug, you need toads – dozens of toads so you may evolve.”

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29. “Kusha paces around her attic. When her constant pacing seems as if it’d burn the wooden floor, she leaves her attic and enters the garden on the roof beside it.”

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30. “She’s rethinking her reasons to make it believable to herself first. Otherwise, it’d be a lie, and as a Grade A, she mustn’t lie.”

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31. “You keep an ancient lock with a scanner while the balcony is open?” he asks.”

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32. “The Monk avoids the question. He brings out a small package of tea – procured from the Himalayas with difficulty.”

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33. “It’s too dangerous for her to step into this. Is he making a mistake bringing her? What if that monster harms her?”

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34. “Mee-Hae Ra. Pointy face, angled eyes; skin warmed after years of living in the south; blue T-shirt, jean shorts, and CRAB in her left wrist. Nothing has changed, except the short, dark-red hair – it was black during the war.”

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35. “Does she really have no other identities except untouchable? A liar? It’s not as if she lies all the time. She only isn’t hundred percent truthful as a strong High Grade is.”

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36. “Not everyone fancies the war heroes, especially not the rogues – the ex-High-Grade citizens.”

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37. “You need to control your thoughts, Ra.”

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38. “The baby is coming next week. Come down tomorrow morning to help prepare the manor, will you?”

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39. “Breaking your own rule is a burden, especially if your fifteen-year-old younger sister catches you red-handed.”

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40. “He senses his energy, the prana, vibrating, looking for a release, either as a subconscious beast or as a conscious creator.”

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41. “In an instant, her brain, empty of information and full of curiosity, craved to create sounds like that with her voice, her lips, her tongue, with her entirety of being, if needed.”

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42. “It’s not a lie, but she’s sure it sounds too much like one, especially to Meera. Kusha can’t deny she isn’t a liar.”

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43. “The water reminds him of that man. The Mesmerizer.”

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44. “She speaks only 1% of her thoughts.”

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45. “Are you serving a house instead of its master, then?”

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46. “Many lose their paths, blinded by evolution. Addiction to power is like any other addiction; you’ll just want it more.”

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47. “The Monk, exiting the GV, takes the dead crow and carries it to his vehicle’s trunk. He needs to burn it later.”

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48. “Her intuition should tell her where something is as long as she knows what to look for, as long as she has a clear map.”

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49. “But you’re avoiding my question, Yagmur. Don’t think I didn’t notice.”

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50. “Even though her strong prana heals it at the same rate, constant damage and regeneration is happening inside her.”

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