Top 200 Renee Ahdieh Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “It’s much easier to hate a memory. I would know.”

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202. “I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else’s hands. But, if you don’t, how will you ever truly know a person?”

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203. “For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.”

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204. “It is not a ridiculous question. It is a very simple one. The difficulty lies in the answer. Why do you love her?”

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205. “Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he’s also loved. By me and by my father. But, most of all, by Shazi. With her, he is as fiercely loved as he loves.”

— Renee Ahdieh

206. “Our greatest enemy can often be found within.”

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207. “I am in no mood for boorish men. Or their warmongering. “Weapons.”

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208. “Hate. This girl hated him with all the violence Khalid felt in his heart. Hated the very sight of him. Hated everything he was with everything she had. Her hate was a thing of glory. She was not afraid. Why isn’t she afraid? His.”

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209. “Perhaps it was the lure of marrying a king. Or the vain hope you might be the one to stay the course and win the heart of a monster.”

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210. “But I do not see this as a shortcoming. For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?”

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211. “Then – without another sound – the beast glided toward her. Like a ghost. Like a demon of the forest, flying on a whorl of black smoke. Mariko’s.”

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212. “It must be said. These truths, no matter how harsh, must be said.”

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213. “Do not live in fear, Khalid-jan, for that is not a life.”

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214. “And never forget my heart is always in your hands.”

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215. “Shahrzad closed her eyes in defeat and slid her palms to his chest. Then she reached behind him in an embrace of sandalwood and sun. Khalid wrapped both his arms around Shahrzad, and they stood together under the dome of the Grand Portico, with the indecipherable art of love poems giving silent testament.”

— Renee Ahdieh

216. “Nothing about the facts had changed. Yet the picture looked different.”

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217. “Though a promise means little without a measure of trust.”

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218. “Such is the way of rumors. We are often the last to know the ones in our honor.”

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219. “We women are a sad lot, aren’t we?” “What do you mean?” “Strong enough to take on the world with our bare hands, yet we permit ridiculous boys to make fools of us.”

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220. “Sharzad had not intended to torment Khalid with the magic carpet. Not at first. But he brought it on himself. Truly, he did.”

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221. “That’s quite gallant of you. After you’ve ignored me for the better part of a week, like a boy half your age with twice your charm.”

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222. “Are you also going to inform me I need to be as swift as a fire so I may move mountains in the wind?” Yoshi.”

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223. “Now is easy. It’s easy to say what you want in a passing moment.”

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224. “I could see her daring a cobra to strike, swearing her venom would kill first.”

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225. “Believe in actions and actions alone.”

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226. “This destroyer of worlds and creature of wonder.”

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227. “Khalid’s features smoothed knowingly. “How right you are. You are not mine.” He dropped his palm from the door. “I am yours.”

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228. “Sometimes we must fall foward to keep moving.”

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229. “With each word, he broke past every barrier, every wall. And Sharazad’s will fought him, screamed a silent scream, while her heart welcomed the intrusion as a songbird welcomes the dawn.”

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230. “Perhaps true weakness is weakness of the spirit.”

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231. “I am strange.” She brandished her practice sword. “And you had better learn to appreciate it.”

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232. “The moment I saw him running toward you that morning, I knew you were going to save him, just as he saved you.”

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233. “Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you’ve done.”

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234. “Love is – a shade of what I feel.”

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235. “In what world did you think you could get away with this?” Jalal seethed. “To my cousin? To my family?” His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.”

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236. “I feel certain you should not hold yourself responsible for anything that transpired, not that night or any of the nights after. I am young, and, therefore, I know my words only carry a certain weight with the world, but I do know enough to realize you cannot control the actions of others. You can only control what you do with yourself afterward.”

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237. “I wish you happiness, Vikram Singh.” “And I you, meraa dost – my greatest friend.”

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238. “Our deepest truths are usually the hardest to conceal.”

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239. “I did not seek permission from anyone, General al-Khoury. Nor shall I seek permission from anyone in the future. For anything.”

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240. “He would learn the truth. Tonight he would flout his own rules. Meet the girl alone. Ask her a single question. He could afford that.”

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241. “Perhaps heroes were a thing to hate.”

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242. “We are what we do.”

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243. “For without a measure.”

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244. “There is no way to know for certain what lurks in the shadowed corners of the mind.”

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245. “Her hate was a thing of glory.”

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246. “No. Despina would continue working at the palace until she could hide the truth no longer. Then she would set her world straight, once and for all. This child would not be raised to fear or hate the world around it. Be made to bow and cower to lesser men. No. The world around this child would bow first.”

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247. “That same awful feeling of being mocked took hold of Mariko. Vicious, unrelenting hold. Making her feel so much smaller than those around her. So much less of everything when all she wished to feel was taller and stronger and braver. So much more. It made her afraid to be herself. Afraid these men would see how every step she took each day was a lie.”

— Renee Ahdieh