Top 200 Renee Ahdieh Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Cut the strings, Shazi. Fly.”

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102. “I suspect she will be like air. Like knowing how to breathe.”

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103. “But I do know I can’t remember the last time I wanted something so much,” he finished in a quiet voice.”

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104. “I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.”

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105. “It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.”

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106. “Stay or go. I leave it to you. But you are welcome always. In all ways.”

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107. “The stars could fall – the moon could crash from the heavens – and Mariko could not care.”

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108. “She laughed, the sound dancing around the room with the airy quality of chimes. “My life is forfeit. You’ve made that clear. Perhaps we should move past that issue and get to the matter at hand.” “By all means.” She took a moment to steady herself. “I want to tell you a story.” “Excuse me?” For the first time, she saw a distinct emotion ripple across his features. Are you surprised? Rest assured, it won’t be the last time, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. “I.”

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109. “People fall in and out of love with the rising and setting of the sun. Rather like a boy who loves the color green one day, only to discover on the morrow that he truly prefers blue.”

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110. “She refused to die like an animal locked in a cage. Like a girl with nothing to save her name. Better to die by the sword. Better to die at the mercy of the nightbeasts. To die in the night air. Free.”

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111. “Sharzad was rewarded with one of his uncommonly effortless smiles. The kind that changed a face of shadows into one of light”.”

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112. “I’ve never been angry to have been born a woman. There have been times I’ve been angry at how the world treats us, but I see being a woman as a challenge I must fight. Like being born under a stormy sky. Some people are lucky enough to be born on a bright summer’s day. Maybe we were born under clouds. No wind. No rain. Just a mountain of clouds we must climb each morning so that we may see the sun.”

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113. “She was not a half. She was wholly her own.”

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114. “Do better than this, Shazi. My queen is without limitations. Boundless in all that she does. Show them.” Her pulse raced.”

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115. “It is a great gift to find lasting love – one that gives for every bit it takes.”

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116. “For a mistake was only a mistake if it was left to remain so.”

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117. “Perhaps I have a strange affinity for old books.”

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118. “Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable... and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.”

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119. “Tariq’s eyes softened, their colors flickering in the shade. Their bright silver centers blended into rings of darkest ash, with black lashes that fanned against the soft skin of his eyelids. His brow had an air of severity that faded with the ready appearance of his smile. A day-old beard shadowed the square line of his jaw, further accentuating its finely wrought symmetry.”

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120. “Khalid had to answer for such vile deeds. Such rampant death. Even if he was her air. Even if she loved him beyond words.”

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121. “My mother used to say that a man who can’t appreciate poetry lacks a soul.”

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122. “Moments spent in idleness were moments left to thought. Moments left to memory.”

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123. “It was a quiet taunt... a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.”

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124. “For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?”

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125. “It’s never been a question of who is going to let me behave a certain way; it’s always been a question of who is going to stop me. I thank you for answering it.”

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126. “He was good at that. Good at robbing the world of light, even in its barest measure.”

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127. “Hattori Mariko was not just any girl. She was more.”

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128. “Flustered by the budding understanding of why her sister might have chosen to love this supposed monster, Irsa fumbled for her satchel.”

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129. “Never mind that it was not what she wanted. Never mind that there was so much left to see and learn and do. She’d been raised for a purpose. A foolish one at that – to be the wife of an important man when she could easily have been something else. Something more.”

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130. “You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I’ve only felt that way about one boy.”

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131. “My favorite color is violet. The scent of roses makes me feel at home, wherever I am. I do not enjoy fish, but I will eat it to make a loved one happy, suffering through my smile.”

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132. “The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid’s skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.”

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133. “Words are foolish. Promises are useless. Anyone can say anything to get what it is they desire. Believe in actions and actions alone.”

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134. “Some secrets are safer behind lock and key.”

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135. “I have learned above all is that no individual can reach the height of their potential without the love of others. We are not meant to be alone, Shahrzad. The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.”

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136. “These were not the words of a madman. For the first time, Tariq saw what Shahrzad saw when she looked at Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. He saw a boy. Who loved a girl. More than anything in the world. And he hated him all the more for it.”

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137. “She rose onto her knees. Let her arms spread wide in the wind.”

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138. “I won’t ask for forgiveness, but I am so very sorry,” he said, with the simple brevity she was learning to expect. She pressed her lips into his soft, dark hair. “I know.” He.”

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139. “Joonam. He’d called her that before. My everything.”

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140. “But even the moment when the leaves fall from their boughs – even that moment – has a beauty to it. A glory of its own.”

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141. “Her lips were hers one moment. And the they were his.”

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142. “And despite being seventeen – Hattori Mariko knew her place in life. She would marry Minamoto Raiden. Her parents would have the prestige of a daughter in the Heian Castle. And Mariko would be the only one to know the stain on that honor.”

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143. “All our lives are forfeit, sayyidi. It is just a question of when. And I would like one more day.”

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144. “No hace falta coraje para matar, hace falta coraje para vivir.”

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145. “No. He was not here to retrieve his wife. For his wife was not a thing to be retrieved.”

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146. “Destiny was for fools. Sharzad would not wait for her life to happen. She would make it happen.”

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147. “You sent Shahrzad away with a boy I would not trust with a dying snake.”

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148. “The entire time she’d watched him – waited for him to join her, even in death – her features had remained serene. A flame in the mist.”

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149. “The sound of his anguish spiraled up into a desert night, across a vast spread of tiny stars. Through Shahrzad’s very skin. Without a word, Shahrzad took his hand and led him into the desert, far beyond the enclave of tents. When she finally turned to face him, Tariq appeared to have aged a decade in a matter of moments. They stared at each other across a small sea of glittering sand. Across years of friendship and trust, seemingly lost in an instant.”

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150. “When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she knew, as he knew, that they were lost. Lost forever. In this kiss. This kiss that would change everything.”

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