Top 250 Misba Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “For a moment, she even thought, she hated every High Grade in the world, including everyone in her adoptive family. Right now, standing in front of Meera, the hatred swells.”

— Misba

152. “Kusha heard people whisper about it in the Old City – the lawless city where sunlight never reaches the ground.”

— Misba

153. “The entire time Pico doesn’t mention the words ‘pets’ or ‘meetings’ or ‘bonfire’ even once.”

— Misba

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Misba

161. “If you’re a bug, you need toads – dozens of toads so you may evolve.”

— Misba

162. “The forest holds the earth’s rarest treasures. His treasures, and they took fifty years to grow.”

— Misba

163. “Still, knowing your origin gives you half your purpose sometimes, building its base. Kusha feels her base missing when she looks in the mirror.”

— Misba

164. “Yuan?” calls one of the most influential archaeologists of the planet and also the owner of this half-broken hut.”

— Misba

165. “If you start afresh with a fully blank brain, like a newborn, you’ll have a lot to catch up on. Sometimes, it won’t be cute. Sitting weirdly, spreading your legs – unaware of your briefs showing, or asking your new parents why their lips are glued together, isn’t cute.”

— Misba

166. “Kusha freezes her muscles, straightening her spine and lifting her chin. Absolute attention, she tells herself.”

— Misba

167. “If the graded citizens with evolved minds and bodies live inside the cities, the ones who haven’t evolved live in the Junk Land.”

— Misba

168. “Were death alarms normal before? Before everything?”

— Misba

169. “He saw what that man has become in their recent meeting.”

— Misba

170. “The Devil’s Book: a three-foot-tall ancient book some believe the devil himself wrote. Yes, the real devil. Others think the book contains all the secrets of mesmerism.”

— Misba

171. “Tsk! As if she can fix the living like she fixes machines.”

— Misba

172. “He feels a tiny spark of emotion, seeing his own photo here, right in the middle of the war and the friendship zone – if there’s any zoning at all among the chaotically placed frames, that is.”

— Misba

173. “Something is different today. Blood and a whimper.”

— Misba

174. “Mastering time isn’t about stopping time, rather, slowing down its effects. Though in the last decade, he has let his dark wavy hair fade and wrinkles grow near his eyes. Even a line or two is visible on his forehead. He sits on a cliff now. His toned torso half-covered in a dark, plain shawl. His chest swells in flawless, mathematical rhythm when he breathes.”

— Misba

175. “Kusha felt a tinge of pride, exponentially multiplied by her Low-Grade inferiority complex, reading this footnote.”

— Misba

176. “Sometimes, she wishes something would happen in her life. Something more unexpected than very willingly venturing into the Junk Land to act like a rebellious twenty-three-year-old adult. But still not adult enough compared to the rest of the evolved adults.”

— Misba

177. “How does she live here alone? He wonders, forgetting that he, too, used to live in such a hut once, until a certain mesmerizer designed an entire mansion for him; until the man said he had to guard the North.”

— Misba

178. “You can discuss anything with Magic Mama. He won’t judge or warn or start a series of lectures like Meera and Rashad do.”

— Misba

179. “Distractions ended. Thoughts began. Then thoughts stopped, too, and the universe entered.”

— Misba

180. “For a woman, who once was a yearning of the Mesmerizer, anything is possible.”

— Misba

181. “You didn’t see their faces yet, did you?”

— Misba

182. “How do you know these things?” Taha shouts, “Brain? Mind? Guts? Soul? You said you’ll teach me!”

— Misba

183. “Could even be some prehistoric tricks with wooden logs flying like pendulums or spikes under the moving floor. Perhaps a net – used to catch monkeys?”

— Misba

184. “How will you explain thirty-seven rarest animals going missing without lying? Even lying wouldn’t help. They will find out during the next appointment. And I still believe you shouldn’t have burned them,” Pico tries to reason.”

— Misba

185. “He senses his feet touching the floor; he tunes himself to the universe. The waves of prana in the floor and the push of music relax his muscles.”

— Misba

186. “Missing this year’s Career Exam will be humiliating. Usually, a company sponsors suitable candidates regarding the exam fee. But landing on such sponsorship without a valid portfolio is impossible. And there are more. The valid portfolio has to be acknowledged by the ones whom you will reach through another valid chain of recommendations.”

— Misba

187. “Listening to war heroes’ speeches here is riskier than just exploring Junk Land with a truck.”

— Misba

188. “Fine. We are the Knights and Rulers of the world,” she says. “You win this verbal war. Can we move on?”

— Misba

189. “So, the ‘you should be prepared for anything’ part of Meera’s speech is ignorable? Kusha thinks. She never speaks her thoughts, or maybe she speaks only 1% of her thoughts, but it’s not the reason she halts now. Kusha widens her eyes. 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.”

— Misba

190. “If she did, Taha would ask what they had talked about, until she finds out how she blabbered about destiny during her first conversation with a war hero, and how he mocked it, and how humiliatingly he called her a fraud who sells originality-detection service.”

— Misba

191. “Mastering time isn’t about stopping time, rather, slowing down its effects.”

— Misba

192. “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.”

— Misba

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

— Misba

194. “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.”

— Misba

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

198. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba