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.”

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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.”

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “Tonight’s rendezvous is beyond the walls.”

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

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7. “Some say whatever they utter with voice becomes an enchantment. Like that in Shattya Yug – the age of truth – the thousands of years old era when people spoke only the truth. And whatever they used to say would always happen, whether it was a blessing or a curse.”

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

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10. “But speaking means nothing if you don’t have voice – the real voice. The voice that never fears. The voice that never doubts. The voice that wins without being loud.”

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11. “No loose strands of hair are annoying her that she’d need to touch her face. At least, not during dancing.”

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

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14. “Sometimes, I wonder if he is behind it, too. Or maybe I’m thinking too much.”

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15. “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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16. “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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17. “But you’re avoiding my question, Yagmur. Don’t think I didn’t notice.”

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18. “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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19. “But it’s not the end. Some keep evolving even more, for evolution is exponentially infinite.”

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

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

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23. “Not that they need to think about the don’t-get-laid-with-a-Low-Grade code anyway. They’re loyal to each other. High Grade couples who stay together for sixty years are rare.”

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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. “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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26. “That ‘it’ll never come again’ felt so ominous, so striking! If words were measured like temperature, they’d feel as cold as a planet with no sun and as dark as the ground of the Old City.”

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27. “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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28. “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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29. “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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30. “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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31. “The baby is coming next week. Come down tomorrow morning to help prepare the manor, will you?”

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32. “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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33. “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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34. “Mostly because she didn’t know what death or life or any other word in the world meant.”

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35. “There’s no welcome song for intruders in any courtesy book,” the Mesmerizer says, still naked and finally replying to whatever the woman said earlier. “Especially, someone from a spy organization,” he adds, “in her full uniform and armed, no less.”

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36. “Sweetie, you are doing it again,” Meera says. “Is there anything on your face?”

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37. “He sees the tiniest rabbit struggling to reach him.”

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38. “A city? Seventy thousand years ago, you say?”

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39. “Kusha says nothing. Old Mark is used to it: never a proper full-sentence reply, only a weak smile and a confused gaze from her.”

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40. “Right. Seven years have passed with the Gaumonts, so that excuse of being ‘new’ isn’t going to work anymore.”

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

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42. “And just like that, her mind drifts off, yet again, right in front of Meera, forgetting it’s rude to drift off during a conversation.”

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43. “The key to conquering emotions isn’t in not feeling them. Rather in catching them the instant they appear.”

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44. “Evolution has its charms. People think harsh training has been its door, but in reality, it was easier to find. The door stood right before their eyes. Always.”

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45. “You are wrong, Yuan,” Mee-Hae says, half-worried and half-angry, her voice suddenly quivering. “He wanted to make you work. With or without him.”

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46. “Just answer a question, Yuan. Did he put you onto this?”

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47. “Now their own master’s voice – the master who trained them both – says Ruem isn’t a human.”

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48. “They marked him for something. Some sort of ritual – dark ritual, for no ritual of the light would involve death.”

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49. “Only her toes touch the ground to kick off and defeat gravity for one moment, until she drops back to the floor on just her toes, making it a flawless leaping-footwork of Bharatanatyam – a traditional dance.”

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50. “A monk’s purity procured through strict abstention won’t stain. Even a dead bird’s foul feather can’t tinge it.”

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