Top 250 Misba Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

209. “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

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

— Misba

211. “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

212. “A life flourishing to fulfill its drive deserves to live.”

— Misba

213. “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

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

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

— Misba

216. “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

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

— Misba

218. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

221. “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

222. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

232. “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

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

— Misba

234. “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

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

— Misba

236. “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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

239. “Always leave a mark, don’t you, humans?”

— Misba

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

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

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

— Misba

244. “Men like real-world games once they learn a trick or two.”

— Misba

245. “She’s texting every ten minutes, trying to convince her about joining a cosplay contest tomorrow evening. Kusha replies ‘NO,’ silencing her for a day.”

— Misba

246. “What would make a feather rot? He looks at the forest, and then, closes his eyes. Focusing his mind, he searches for any sign of death in the forest, but nothing.”

— Misba

247. “Even if it takes manually fixing millions of old cars to equal healing one tiny plant, she’ll do it. Silly. But she has enough time to be silly. Just not enough of it to evolve.”

— Misba

248. “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

249. “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

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

— Misba