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We mourn what has been lost, and tomorrow, we rise.

All the world is in your shadow, Zahra.

Habiba. It's an old word that means dear friend.

Her mind drew him in, hid his image at its center, folded over him, the world slid into place, the chaos ceased.

You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. ~Aladdin

Find me, my thief.

You've ruled before, so tell me, does it get easier?"
"No, but you get stronger.

The price of every lie is that the truth will always come out.

...there is a somewhere else after this, where everyone drinks elysia and lives forever.

Stop thinking like a princess and be a queen. She

May you carry the weight of this betrayal to your grave.

We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars.

He is the sun, and I am the moon. We must stay apart or the world will be thrown out of balance.

If it's a monster they want, then a monster they shall have.

Unable to go forward, afraid to go back

Because when you love someone, that's what you do - you get involved.

The woman may be a biomedical engineer, but I begin to think that she is a certifiable idiot.

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.

Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.

Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.

WHERE IS MY SON?" Uncle Antonio bellows, levelling the two AK-47s he's holding at the lot of us. "Get away from him, you bastards!

It's time for both of us to be free.

Love makes you weak. It distracts you from the important things. It can make you lose sight of the objective.
-Uncle Paolo

She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.

Mm!" Joey rubbed his stomach. "I love me some root juice in the morning. Enlivens the senses!

Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life.

Love is a path lined with roses.

Cruelty, I understand. But kindness frightens me, for my defenses are weak against it. ~Zahra

It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.

A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.

How many have died that I might live?
And who has died that I might live?

He is nothing. I tell myself this, so that I will not hope for him. I am not allowed to hope. I am a forbidden wish of my own.

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

He alone can meet my eyes without disgust or fear. He alone still sees the girl inside the monster. But it is not enough.

Every glance, every touch, every whisper between us has been a pebble added to the scales, tipping me toward a new direction.

Smoky, if there's one thing I am, it's adaptable.

A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.

And once I am free to run, not even the shadows of the past will be able to catch me.

But my heart is a treacherous star, refusing to dim when the sun rises

Wishes are born in the will of men and women, and it is the true and pure source of power all humans hold.

Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.

I may as well shackle my wrist to a bolt of lightning as attach myself to a mortal.

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio.

Less a point on a map and more a region of the soul, but it is a path I can follow.

The answer cannot be found. That should be my new life motto.

This has been the great lesson of my long life: To love is to destroy.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

If you're not free to love, your're not free at all.

And what do you know of love?"
"That it must be a choice."
"Oh, my naive thief. " I pause briefly to meet his gaze. "Love is rarely a choice.

I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink.

You insist you're a monster because you're afraid of being human.

There is only one thing more numerous than the stars," I say, looking up to the heavens. "And that is the darkness that holds them.

There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

My imagination is the most powerful muscle I possess.

I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.
-Pia

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?

A chicken doesn't fly like other birds, but it is still a bird.

Not all battles can be fought in the light.

Nothing is worth betraying someone you love. ~Aladdin

Who knows that each day is not a gift but a prize that is to be seized

Maybe reason is neater and more orderly, but nonsense is freeing.

Use your wish," I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. "Please."
"If I do," he replies softly, "I'll lose you.

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.

Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian

I am the weed cast out of the rose garden. I am the crow chased out of the dovecote.

Have I told you I love you?" he whispers.
I smile. "Not since this morning."
"Unforgivable. I will tell you every hour of every day.

I have no form, I have no name. I am the Slave of the Lamp, and your will is my will. Your wishes are my commands." ~Zahra