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Top 30 Namina Forna Quotes (2025 Update)

Namina Forna Quote: “All this time, I’ve been afraid of my ability, when instead I should have been regarding it as a treasured weapon.”

1. “All this time, I’ve been afraid of my ability, when instead I should have been regarding it as a treasured weapon.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Subterfuge is their art, disguise their trade.”

2. “Subterfuge is their art, disguise their trade.”

— Namina Forna

Namina Forna Quote: “Every girl knows it by heart. We recite it whenever we enter a temple – a constant reminder that women were created to be helpmeets to men, subservient to their desires and commands.”

3. “Every girl knows it by heart. We recite it whenever we enter a temple – a constant reminder that women were created to be helpmeets to men, subservient to their desires and commands.”

— Namina Forna

Namina Forna Quote: “The physical body – it heals. The scars fade. But the memories are forever. Even when you forget, they remain inside, taunting you, resurfacing when you least expect.”

4. “The physical body – it heals. The scars fade. But the memories are forever. Even when you forget, they remain inside, taunting you, resurfacing when you least expect.”

— Namina Forna

Namina Forna Quote: “No matter my origins, there is worth in what I am.”

5. “No matter my origins, there is worth in what I am.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “An oddity. Something most of us have never seen before. You have to be careful of oddities, Deka. Sometimes, they can be dangerous things.”

6. “An oddity. Something most of us have never seen before. You have to be careful of oddities, Deka. Sometimes, they can be dangerous things.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “My face may be the spitting image of his, but that’s not enough. I need to be proven for the village to accept me, for Father’s family to accept us. Once my blood runs pure, I’ll finally belong.”

7. “My face may be the spitting image of his, but that’s not enough. I need to be proven for the village to accept me, for Father’s family to accept us. Once my blood runs pure, I’ll finally belong.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Never forget: the same gift they praise you for now, they will kill you for later.”

8. “Never forget: the same gift they praise you for now, they will kill you for later.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “No matter what White Hands is, no matter what she’s done, she’s saved the lives of countless girls. Rescued them from certain death. Rescued me.”

9. “No matter what White Hands is, no matter what she’s done, she’s saved the lives of countless girls. Rescued them from certain death. Rescued me.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Demons?” White Hands dismisses the word with a wave of her hand. “The Gilded Ones were never demons. They were goddesses. They ruled Otera until their own sons rose up against them.”

10. “Demons?” White Hands dismisses the word with a wave of her hand. “The Gilded Ones were never demons. They were goddesses. They ruled Otera until their own sons rose up against them.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Pretend like everything is all right when it’s not. Make horrible jokes to hide your pain.”

11. “Pretend like everything is all right when it’s not. Make horrible jokes to hide your pain.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “She was four years my junior. An admirable Shadow. Ferocious, determined. A pity what happened to her. She could have been a legend among us, but then she got with child. You, I presume?”

12. “She was four years my junior. An admirable Shadow. Ferocious, determined. A pity what happened to her. She could have been a legend among us, but then she got with child. You, I presume?”

— Namina Forna

Namina Forna Quote: “I want to have a life, a real one this time... But to do so, I have to survive. We all do.”

13. “I want to have a life, a real one this time... But to do so, I have to survive. We all do.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Keita is just like all the rest, giving us impossibilities and calling them choices.”

14. “Keita is just like all the rest, giving us impossibilities and calling them choices.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “His words, his hate, strike deep into my heart. Bitches. A word just as ugly as all the others men throw at us. It’s all I can do not to unsheathe my swords, but I ask one last question. “Why didn’t you kill me the moment you knew what I was?”

15. “His words, his hate, strike deep into my heart. Bitches. A word just as ugly as all the others men throw at us. It’s all I can do not to unsheathe my swords, but I ask one last question. “Why didn’t you kill me the moment you knew what I was?”

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Namina Forna Quote: “You’re nothing but a group of malformed demon spawn, and I hope to Oyomo the deathshrieks finish your kind off well before we return from the desert.”

16. “You’re nothing but a group of malformed demon spawn, and I hope to Oyomo the deathshrieks finish your kind off well before we return from the desert.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “I’m just grateful they found each other in the Warthu Bera, rather than a place like Irfut, where they would have been beaten, then forced into servitude as temple maidens for deviancy.”

17. “I’m just grateful they found each other in the Warthu Bera, rather than a place like Irfut, where they would have been beaten, then forced into servitude as temple maidens for deviancy.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “They might need us now because we’re valuable, might pretend to accept us, to reward us – but never forget what they did to us first.”

18. “They might need us now because we’re valuable, might pretend to accept us, to reward us – but never forget what they did to us first.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “The captain nods brusquely. “Ensure that you keep it that way,” he says. “Ensure that you keep your unholy ways well to yourself, because if I suspect for any reason that you are doing otherwise, I will give you so many brutal almost-deaths, you’ll marvel at my ingenuity from here to infinity.”

19. “The captain nods brusquely. “Ensure that you keep it that way,” he says. “Ensure that you keep your unholy ways well to yourself, because if I suspect for any reason that you are doing otherwise, I will give you so many brutal almost-deaths, you’ll marvel at my ingenuity from here to infinity.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “We all have a choice right now. Are we girls or are we demons? Are we going to die or are we going to survive?”

20. “We all have a choice right now. Are we girls or are we demons? Are we going to die or are we going to survive?”

— Namina Forna

Namina Forna Quote: “And I am coming for the gods.”

21. “And I am coming for the gods.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Cousin? The word is a lightning bolt through me. White Hands is a royal? I thought she was just a noble, high-ranking but of ordinary blood, as all the other nobles are. To think that she has imperial blood – the blood of the emperor – coursing through her veins. It explains so many things: the way people defer to her, her seeming confidence against all odds.”

22. “Cousin? The word is a lightning bolt through me. White Hands is a royal? I thought she was just a noble, high-ranking but of ordinary blood, as all the other nobles are. To think that she has imperial blood – the blood of the emperor – coursing through her veins. It explains so many things: the way people defer to her, her seeming confidence against all odds.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Mother was pregnant before she and Father ever met. Did White Hands have a hand in creating me – some sort of alaki breeding project? If I accept that she made Ixa, then it’s possible she made me, possible I’m some sort of shapeshifter as well. That could be why my eyes sometimes change, why I look like Father, even though there’s no way he’s my true parent.”

23. “Mother was pregnant before she and Father ever met. Did White Hands have a hand in creating me – some sort of alaki breeding project? If I accept that she made Ixa, then it’s possible she made me, possible I’m some sort of shapeshifter as well. That could be why my eyes sometimes change, why I look like Father, even though there’s no way he’s my true parent.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Do you think this is a game?” the proud girl snaps, aquiline features whipping, hawklike, towards Britta. “Do you think that we’re off to court, to learn how to be proper maidens and do needlework?” The girl leans closer, a sneer on her face. “We’re monsters, and they’re going to treat us like monsters. They’re going to use us, bleed us, and when they’re done, they’re going to find whatever our final deaths are and execute us one by one.”

24. “Do you think this is a game?” the proud girl snaps, aquiline features whipping, hawklike, towards Britta. “Do you think that we’re off to court, to learn how to be proper maidens and do needlework?” The girl leans closer, a sneer on her face. “We’re monsters, and they’re going to treat us like monsters. They’re going to use us, bleed us, and when they’re done, they’re going to find whatever our final deaths are and execute us one by one.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “I’ve been so dedicated to building myself into the perfect warrior these past few months. Did I really think I’d gotten past all this? Did I really think I could forgive and forget, just like that?”

25. “I’ve been so dedicated to building myself into the perfect warrior these past few months. Did I really think I’d gotten past all this? Did I really think I could forgive and forget, just like that?”

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Namina Forna Quote: “The emperor and his men, they can use White Hands and the rest of the karmokos to make us into warriors, they can even give us absolution, but they can never change what they did. They can never take back the horrors that have already been inflicted on us.”

26. “The emperor and his men, they can use White Hands and the rest of the karmokos to make us into warriors, they can even give us absolution, but they can never change what they did. They can never take back the horrors that have already been inflicted on us.”

— Namina Forna

Namina Forna Quote: “My anger builds as I realize how thoroughly my mind has been poisoned that I would be shocked to see women in these positions.”

27. “My anger builds as I realize how thoroughly my mind has been poisoned that I would be shocked to see women in these positions.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “Other than my parents and Elfriede, no one’s ever smiled at me so much. I fight the urge to duck my head in embarrassment.”

28. “Other than my parents and Elfriede, no one’s ever smiled at me so much. I fight the urge to duck my head in embarrassment.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “He’s crying as he kills me.”

29. “He’s crying as he kills me.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “I look down, that awful feeling rising inside me again. “No one ever wanted me,” I whisper. Besides, Elder Durkas always told us kissing led to impurity, and I tried so desperately to be pure, for all the good it did me.”

30. “I look down, that awful feeling rising inside me again. “No one ever wanted me,” I whisper. Besides, Elder Durkas always told us kissing led to impurity, and I tried so desperately to be pure, for all the good it did me.”

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Namina Forna Quote: “The man I left in Irfut was never truly my father – none of his blood runs in my veins. Perhaps that’s why he abandoned me so easily to the Death Mandate. Even though he always claimed me as his own, something deep inside him must have whispered I wasn’t his. That I shared none of his flesh, none of his blood.”

31. “The man I left in Irfut was never truly my father – none of his blood runs in my veins. Perhaps that’s why he abandoned me so easily to the Death Mandate. Even though he always claimed me as his own, something deep inside him must have whispered I wasn’t his. That I shared none of his flesh, none of his blood.”

— Namina Forna

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