Top 200 Renee Ahdieh Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Never forget, Sanada Takeo: in this forest, there is no place to hide.”

— Renee Ahdieh

102. “I may be partial to roses, but I am not a fragile flower.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

104. “There is such strength in being a woman. But it is a strength you must choose for yourself. No one can choose it for you. We can bend the wind to our ear if we would only try.”

— Renee Ahdieh

105. “Cut the strings, Shazi. Fly.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

109. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

110. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

112. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

113. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

115. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

128. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

129. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

130. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

132. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

135. “Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.”

— Renee Ahdieh

136. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

141. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

142. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

143. “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.”

— Renee Ahdieh

144. “There is a vast difference between meaning to do something and actually doing it.”

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

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

— Renee Ahdieh

148. “If you are just one girl, I am just one boy.” Shahrzad.”

— Renee Ahdieh

149. “But you do laugh too loud. And I hope you never stop.” Despina.”

— Renee Ahdieh

150. “Beauty fades. But a pain in the ass is forever.”

— Renee Ahdieh