Top 40 Tasha Suri Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you.”

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2. “Try and break me, Priya said. If I’m – I’m so much, if you think I’m so much more than any other person, then – then bring me back down to just skin. Make me human. Try to break me. Try.”

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3. “Don’t you realize I want to know everything about you? That even now, when I should have forgotten you, all I desire is to know your heart better than my own?”

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4. “If I must burn, then I’ll take you with me, throne and all.”

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5. “Hate me, Malini. Hate me and live. I can love enough for the both of us.”

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6. “She’d spent so long controlling herself that saying something truly honest was pure relief.”

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7. “The moment I saw you, I felt a tug. You are the feeling of falling, the tidal waters, the way a living thing will always turn, seeking light. It isn’t that I think you are good or kind, or even that I love you. It is only that, the moment I saw you, I knew I would seek you out. Just as I sought the deathless waters. Just as I sought my brother. Just as I seek all things – without thought, with nothing but want.”

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8. “Let them stare. She was a temple elder. She had more power in her bones than any of them had in their titles.”

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9. “I have looked upon the ocean, she wrote. And it made me recall the tale of a river. And of a fish, searching for a new world on its bank. And I remember a tale of garlands. And ill stars. And two people who found their way to one another.”

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10. “I barely understand it, the way I would willingly kneel for you, anywhere, for anything. The way I would fight for you. The way I want to be at your side. Is that what love is, Malini? Is that how awful love is? Because if it is, then I love you, the way that roots love the deep and leaves love the light. It’s – the way I am. And no matter how much I try to be good, to do right – I’m all flowers in your arms, for your war, for you –.”

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11. “To be inherently, by your nature, unable to serve your purpose? To want, simply because you want, to love simply for the sake of love?”

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12. “Truth and lies were both tools, to be used when most necessary.”

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13. “Be careful with your tears,” her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. “They’re blood of the spirit.”

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14. “And Malini was watching her, devouring her with her eyes, until suddenly she was not. Suddenly Malini was gasping, her throat flushed; Malini was tilting her head back, her body arching and falling, and her hands gripping ever tighter, until Priya could feel nothing but her, and taste nothing but her, and want nothing but her.”

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15. “And what will you do if I’m not well, in the end?” Priya asked. “Nothing,” Sima said. “I could do nothing. But I’d still want to know. That’s what friends want.”

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16. “I was never lying about wanting you,” Malini said in a low voice. “Never with my eyes or my words. Never when I touched you. All of that was true.”

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17. “What is a star, he thought, in Aditya’s slurred, smiling voice, but distant fire, reaching for you across worlds?”

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18. “Maybe if I’d been raised gently by people who taught me to be kind and good, I’d know how to do it. But I was taught goodness and kindness, or what passes for it, by other damaged children, so I can’t.”

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19. “He should have left then. But Rao was one of the nameless faith, and he understood the sacred power of instinct – the way a body’s knowing could be a gift from the nameless, a prophecy written in the thud of the heart or the ice of fear winding down a spine. He felt it then: a kind of foreboding. Not quite fear. Not quite curiosity.”

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20. “This face. This face right in front of me. The face you’ve shown me, the fact that you kissed me. I know it. I know you,′ said Priya, ‘I know exactly who you are. There are other versions of you that I don’t know. But this one... ’ Her fingers were against Malini’s lips. ‘This one is mine.”

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21. “No vow, no matter what it compels from me, will be more important than the one I’ve made to love you.”

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22. “I am always thinking of you. I think of you in battle. I think of you in the dark of night. When my mind is silent or full, you wait there for me. It galls me that I want you as much as this. That my heart so thoroughly belongs to you. The power you have over me, Priya. Why does it refuse to fade?”

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23. “She had blamed Mehr because she had been ignorant. Because she’d known nothing.”

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24. “There is power that is showy and fierce. And there is power grown slowly, and stronger for the time spent braiding its ancient strength.”

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25. “When I am alive and I am empress. When you have everything I’ve vowed to you and Ahiranya... ” Silence, as Malini cupped Priya’s waist with a hand; as she stretched her fingers wide, as if she could encompass it, hold Priya and keep her. “I’ve dreamt of garlanding you,” Malini confessed. A small, secret thing. “Flowers around your throat, and you garlanding me in return. The two of us making our own promises to each other. I’ve dreamt of naming you my own. My heart. My wife.”

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26. “Malini wanted to explain that being monstrous wasn’t inherent, as Priya seemed to believe it to be. It was something placed upon you: a chain or a poison, bled into you by unkind hands.”

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27. “A child should not be a chain, used to yoke a woman like cattle to a role, a purpose, a life she would not have chosen for herself. And yet she felt then, with an aching resentment, how Vikram would use their child to reduce and erase her. She hated him for that, for stealing the quiet and strange intimacy of her and her own flesh and blood and making it a weapon.”

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28. “The fragile thing in Priya’s chest splintered, just a little. Malini’s words were a reminder that there was so much more at stake than her soft feelings for Malini, or Malini’s for her. Politics and war and history all stood like a chasm between them.”

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29. “After all, power makes everyone monstrous. At least a little.”

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30. “I am afraid for you!” His voice was vicious. His pulse burned beneath her hand. “If anything happens to you here and I live, I will read every book, every tome, I will trick death itself to bring you back. I will become something terrible, not for your sake, but mine, because I cannot live in a world without you in it.”

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31. “You, like everyone, are but a single light dancing at the whim of cosmic forces.”

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32. “When you murder your brothers, remember that we loved you once, heart sister,” Narini finished. “Remember that we love you still, no matter what you become.”

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33. “Chandra had taught her how fear felt. And shame. The way they could settle in your stomach, heavy as a stone. How they could alter your nature to something bidden and chained.”

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34. “But some men dream of times long dead, and times that never existed, and they’re willing to tear the world apart entirely to get them.”

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35. “You know one of my faces.” “Yes. The one that’s under my hands now,” said Priya. “The real one.”

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36. “Power doesn’t have to be the way the regent and your rebels make it be,” Priya said eventually, making do with her own artless words, her own simple knowledge of the way the world worked. “Power can be looking after people. Keeping them safe, instead of putting them into danger.”

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37. “Subtlety was cultivated out of necessity, by people who knew that power needed to be treated with care – who understand how easily it could be stolen or taken.”

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38. “She had been molded and erased and silenced for safety. She had been denied the truth for safety. Her history had been cleaved almost in two, for safety. They had almost broken her, for the sake of making her safe, for the sake of their love for her, and she would carry the wound of it all her life.”

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39. “You and Chandra both believe the right to rule is something that must be given to you, by the mothers of flame, by blood, by the nameless. I’m no such fool. I know there is no higher power that sanctions a king or emperor. There is only the moment when power is placed in your hand, and there is on truth: Either you take the power and wield it, or someone else will. And perhaps they will not be as kind to you and yours.”

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40. “Malini laughed – a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed.”

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