Hafsah Faizal Quotes

I just think that once you're bound to another, you change. That for the happiness of the one you love, and for your own, you change without knowing it.

All right' is when you're bleeding black but it's not as bad as bleeding red. When the world crashes but you're not alone when it does. When the darkness is absolute but you hunt down the smallest flame and coax it brighter. When you carve the good out of every bad and claim it a victory.

So you thought to spare her. Did you think this was your chance for redemption? Silly boy, darkness is your destiny. You were born for hell.

Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.

Feelings had transpired without permission, conspired without his brain, working with what was left of his heart.

A life without purpose is no life at all.

The first step to getting anywhere is believing you can.

But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.

A monster. For a monster will always be enslaved to a master.

When I think of war, I see blood. Pain and suffering. Nothing good comes from war.
But there is good. There will be an outcome. One side will find peace, solace. While the other will end in bitter loss.
There are two sides to the coin of war.

He would not fear the darkness. He was the darkness.

The fire crackled. On Jutaire, without oxygen, the fire is different. Fed by different air. Maybe it wishes it were orange, for it sputters and reaches up to the sky with angry fists of blue and purple. It still doesn't know we can't all get what we want.

May your hearts remain entwined beyond death.

He didn't live. He existed. And no one understood the difference between the two until they ceased to live.

Sometimes, when you live a life of captivity, trapped for so long, freedom becomes a thing to fear.

The beauty that withstands all. Stubborn in the harshest of atmospheres.

His mother used to say that a person without hope was a body without a soul.

...and he laughed a laugh she loved more than the warmest of fires on the coldest of nights.

...in this moment, we are two souls, marooned beneath the moon, hungry and alone, adrift in the current of what we do not understand. We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves... You remind me that hope is not lost.

Death is the one thing certain in human life. Why does it still come as a surprise when it happens?

They'll tell stories about us, he had said.
There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.

He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars.

People died because he lived.

But eyes couldn't stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.

He looked strong and powerful beneath this new sun. Neither was a world she had ever before used to describe him. But today he looked different. Today she felt a fool for not seeing him as she should have. Funny how eyes worked.

I have always wished for someone to take matters into her own hands...to prove to our caliph that a body is only a body and that a soul determines one's actions.

Love is for children, said the girl.
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong.

Tell me, why do you hunt?"
"For my people. To feed them." Zafira said.
"No one can be that pure.

There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.

If you're going to save the world, you might as well do it in style!

A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.

That does not mean I cannot love a monster

He came here for one act alone: murder.