Words That May Inspire You

We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal

   Always carry a blade and a benignity. You may never know which you will need. - Silver Witch

   He loved Arawiya, and because there was no one to love him, he loved himself. - Altair

   perhaps that was the greater evil, having power in your hands but being powerless to alter a reality. - Zafira

   Not everything requires a battle, least of all grief. - Nasir

   Violence was not how one established a home. - Zafira's thought

   Fear is but a warning to heed. - The Jawarat

   There's a fine line between the thirst for revenge and the hunger for power, and men have a hard time understanding boundaries. - Kifah

Wrong are the ones who believe power is king. Control, and you will triumph. - Nasir

   If you can't even speak of what you want, then perhaps --- perhaps you don't want it hard enough. - Zafira

   It was easy to believe that anyone who did not speak of suffering did not suffer. - Zafira

   "First loves are difficult things,"
   "And second ones?"
   "Everything the first was not."       - Nasir : Lana

   Were all monsters lonely, he wondered, pretending to be aloof and unafraid? - Altair's thoughts

   Perhaps worse than abuse was waking up to the fact. The realization, striking and unmooring, that the norm one had lived was not at all normal. - Nasir

   For truth held emotion, and lies hold deception. It was how one knew which to believe. - Nasir

   When you have a reputation, it's easy to go unquestioned. - Altair

   Emotions don't define us. It's what you do with them that's important. - Zafira

   Did the stars fall from the sky to adorn you in their luster? No --- liquid silver. You are the well that forged every blade in the world. - Nasir to Zafira

   An empty life is a fate worse than death. - Aya

   Perhaps they were all monsters, masquerading in costumes of innocence. - Zafira

   Power once rested in their hands, wealth adorned every angle of their sight. None of them remembered the shroud has no pockets. - Nasir's thoughts

   To live was to swear the oath of death. - Zafira

   Words so recklessly thrown in the present were now rooted in the past. - Nasir

   Pity never bought the dead back. It was an insult, plain and simple. - Nasir

   Some truths have no reason. - Seif

   People change when they pick themselves up and piece themselves together again.   - Yasmine

   It was unfair that girls so young were weathered enough to understand society so keenly. - Zafira

   I would rather die at a merciful hand than live a monstrous life. - Kifah

   We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from stuggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks --- weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we're old enough to grasp them. So we fight, because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won't go down without one. - Zafira

   Every rule has within itself the seeds of its own downfall. - Kifah

   She wasn't a cruel mother, or an evil one. Rather, she was ill-equipped for motherhood, too mired in her own mistakes and failings and their recompense. - Altair

   "I don't need a man to complete me."
   "No, we never do. Your happiness completes you. And if he is what makes you happy, why would you throw him away?"       - Zafira : Yasmine