Top 250 Misba Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Something is different today. Blood and a whimper.”

— Misba

102. “Nothing can make a strong voice speak unless he truly wants to.”

— Misba

103. “On a highway much closer to the sky, it happens again. This time he witnesses it: A crow – already dead and cold, as unholy as uncontrolled emotions – hits his windshield at bullet speed.”

— Misba

104. “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.”

— Misba

105. “Taha’s favorite company arranges giveaways for their latest action-figures – ‘dolls’ according to Meera. Kusha never reveals the winning numbers. It’s cheating, she believes. And cheating is rude.”

— Misba

106. “It’s hard not to be glad that the Apocalypse happened. Or they never could’ve found the highest possibilities for humans.”

— Misba

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

— Misba

108. “Kusha searched about it on the Central Library’s online archive after coming from the auction. Of course, it was a lie.”

— Misba

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

— Misba

110. “Listening to war hero speeches here is asking for danger.”

— Misba

111. “I’m fine,” Kusha interrupts with a lie.”

— Misba

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

— Misba

113. “Rashad and Meera Gaumont do everything without noise. All. The. Time. They’re High Grades – Grade A: 107-year-olds with ageless bodies, and they follow the Untouchable Code by heart.”

— Misba

114. “It’s the 50th Independence Day. They won’t welcome the citizens today.” Old Mark states the obvious.”

— Misba

115. “Even the weird feeling in her guts doesn’t make her wait another second. The feeling came right when she heard the words ’perfectly ready.”

— Misba

116. “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.”

— Misba

117. “Tonight’s rendezvous is beyond the walls.”

— Misba

118. “Angry about being angry, aren’t you?” Taha smirks, still leaping.”

— Misba

119. “A High Grade’s words have weight; she must now think through what leaves her lips.”

— Misba

120. “The Monk takes the key and inserts it into the lock carefully, hoping neither the key nor the lock will break. Of course, he does the methodical twists and turns with mechanical precision, winning through the rust until he opens the almost broken door like the gentle monk he is. The door shrieks.”

— Misba

121. “To think she has forfeited her ethics for the Devil’s Book! The only book in the world she sees in her dreams, daydreams, and nightmares. The only book that may have the real secrets of voice instead of boring jargon page after page, tickling your curiosity and giving you the things you already know.”

— Misba

122. “I’m guessing something happened?” Mee-Hae says, busying herself with make-the-sofa-sittable and turn-the-room-walkable for a sudden guest.”

— Misba

123. “And you don’t feel well.” The Monk touches her shoulder, tracing her body with his palm. It rests at the back of her waist.”

— Misba

124. “Sometimes, she feels each of her cells bursting whenever she hears questions. Just any questions from anyone.”

— Misba

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

— Misba

126. “You’re still depending on healing pills?” he says in questioning tone.”

— Misba

127. “My nightmares are out of control. The thoughts during my dreams,” Mee-Hae says, leaning against his chest.”

— Misba

128. “One room in the two-story building glows, violin music emanating from it. Maroc is playing for his master: The Roar of Death Sonata, 1st Movement, one of the legendary Eleven Pieces composed after the Apocalypse.”

— Misba

129. “This girl is doing it again: practicing jumping from four-meter-height for her next grade test.”

— Misba

130. “Meera ordered Taha to train for two hours. It still isn’t two hours. Kusha wonders if she’s being a bad sister.”

— Misba

131. “Preparing the manor means removing the disc-lift section, installing railings at a few places. Don’t forget the baby-friendly stairs, even though the newborn won’t use it for another year. Rashad has finished the carpet replacement and floor disinfecting, not that the baby will be crawling anytime soon. Other tasks include removing Meera’s books and crafts, also the sharp objects from up to a height.”

— Misba

132. “Kusha digs through her chain of thoughts, looking blankly at the air. Soon, her mind reaches the source thought like a train reaching its destination.”

— Misba

133. “Kusha pushes the last of her long screw into the soil, another expensive thing she bought from the Old City. The almost-broken, two-inch seedling now stands supported. Guilt, partly for a tiny seedling, slightly more for being an unobservant, untouchable human who isn’t graded yet.”

— Misba

134. “From here, their neighbors’ houses look like dots on the ground or balloons in the air.”

— Misba

135. “Who do you serve?”

— Misba

136. “He remembers the thirty-seven beasts in his forest that turned stone-hard and dead.”

— Misba

137. “These days, the word Source is coming frequently, ever since that man asked to meet.”

— Misba

138. “This evolution isn’t physical, rather cognitive, spiritual. It’s a process where prana strengthens the body and mind. Kusha hopes she really is in the process.”

— Misba

139. “He frowns. How unusual for a monk to frown or to think needlessly! Yuan shields his mind. His eyes closed in deep meditation. A ninety-nine-year-old monk who mastered time and desires shouldn’t let little thoughts infect his inner quiet.”

— Misba

140. “Did anything happen,” Meera asks, “in the auction, sweetie?”

— Misba

141. “You’re after secrets, aren’t you? Just like him,” Mee-Hae says.”

— Misba

142. “She remembers going to the garden during the auction and falling asleep on a swing with questions about the ghost woman.”

— Misba

143. “Things look familiar: the high shelves full of books, jars of green tea, dried flowers – also for tea, big rocks, and crystals that emit strong prana and light. The light trapped inside the crystals makes them brighter, stunning against the dark background of the wooden floor and ceiling.”

— Misba

144. “It’s a laughable lock – one that you would use only to guard a graveyard.”

— Misba

145. “The Monk remembers taking this photo himself. Sometimes, he wonders if it’s his fault that that man lost his last threads of humanity.”

— Misba

146. “Some things shouldn’t be downloaded even as subconscious alarms, she thinks. Two prophetic alarms are enough for one morning, she believes.”

— Misba

147. “Perhaps a bird or the wind carried the seed and Meera didn’t notice it yet. Otherwise, it would be groomed out for daring to grow its head high in such a neat lawn.”

— Misba

148. “The Monk frowns – almost, noticing how vaguely the Archeologist crafted her answer, for he said he’d believe it blindly.”

— Misba

149. “The woman said again. Whoever they stood for, did they come for her before? Before she found herself with the Gaumonts?”

— Misba

150. “A conversation is always a bother, and confrontation is worse.”

— Misba