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She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield. — Sabaa Tahir

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. — Tahir Shah

Children are born to break their mothers' hearts, my boy. — Sabaa Tahir

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. — Tahir Shah

So many bleeding, stupid questions. Do girls think like this all the time? No wonder they're so confusing. — Sabaa Tahir

The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release. — Sabaa Tahir

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. — Tahir Shah

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation — Tahir Shah

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas. — Tahir Shah

Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head. — Sabaa Tahir

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection. — Tahir Shah

You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it. — Sabaa Tahir

In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt
if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful. — Tahir Shah

The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil; call to good and spend in the way of Allah. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. — Tahir Shah

Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone. — Sabaa Tahir

In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in its cold arms. — Sabaa Tahir

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light. — Sabaa Tahir

Secrets are a snake's way of doing business." "And snakes survive, — Sabaa Tahir

As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes. — Tahir Shah

Laia. The Scholar girl. Another ember waiting to burn the world down,' she says. 'Will you hurt her too? — Sabaa Tahir

Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive. — Tahir Shah

Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged, but it's there. Don't let them take it from you, Elias. — Sabaa Tahir

Too much fear and you're paralyzed. Too little fear and you're arrogant. — Sabaa Tahir

In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell. — Tahir Shah

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information. — Tahir Shah

Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier. — Sabaa Tahir

In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists. — Tahir Shah

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories. — Tahir Shah

True suffering lies in the expectation of pain as much as in the pain itself. — Sabaa Tahir

The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up. — Tahir Shah

Everyone knows that even the best exorcism has to be renewed once in a while. — Tahir Shah

The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end. — Tahir Shah

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there. — Tahir Shah

I am trying to create awareness of the true concept of democracy. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Nothing is what it seems.
Favoured Pashtu proverb of Jan Fishan Khan. — Tahir Shah

We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets and all mod cons. — Tahir Shah

Who is my brother now? When did he transform from the boy who made me too-sweet tea to a man with secrets too heavy to share with his little sister? — Sabaa Tahir

I don't need to believe in the supernatural, not when there's worse that roams the night. — Sabaa Tahir

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. — Tahir Shah

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans. — Faran Tahir

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things. — Tahir Shah

All evil here. Monsters. Little monsters and then big ones. — Sabaa Tahir

So long as you fight in the darkness, you stand in the light. — Sabaa Tahir

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. — Tahir Shah

I throw her over my shoulder — Sabaa Tahir

As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code. — Tahir Shah

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it. — Tahir Shah

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. — Tahir Shah

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene. — Tahir Shah

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping. — Tahir Shah

But I'm not strong. I'm weak, and I'm sick of pretending I'm not. — Sabaa Tahir

I know what it is to lose those you love. I taught myself not to feel anything at all. For so long that it wasn't until I met you that — Sabaa Tahir

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. — Tahir Shah

Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword. — Sabaa Tahir

Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep — Tahir M Khan

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. — Tahir Shah

Perhaps I have become so accustomed to the burden of secrets that I do not notice their weight until I am free of it. — Sabaa Tahir

Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells. — Faran Tahir

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. — Tahir Shah

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. — Sabaa Tahir

Once, I'd have wanted that. I'd have wanted someone to tell me what to do, to fix everything. Once, I'd have wanted to be saved. — Sabaa Tahir

My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it. — Tahir Shah

I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me. — Faran Tahir

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it. — Tahir Shah

I'd say it's impossible, but the Commandant trained the word out of me. — Sabaa Tahir

Few people want witnesses to their pain, and grief is the worst pain of all. — Sabaa Tahir

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. — Tahir Shah

Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time - that's permanent. — Sabaa Tahir

The thought appears in my head, but I hardly know what I means. — Sabaa Tahir

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture. — Tahir Shah

The stars are so different when you're free. — Sabaa Tahir

Elias and Laia are each other's countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note. — Sabaa Tahir

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path — Tahir Shah

Exploration is a dirty game. — Tahir Shah

I recognize the smell - his smell - spice and rain. — Sabaa Tahir

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. — Tahir Shah

Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. - MOROCCAN PROVERB — Tahir Shah

The best lies come from the truth. — Sabaa Tahir

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic. — Tahir Shah

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead. — Tahir Shah

Sometimes loneliness is a choice. — Sabaa Tahir

Elias and I are finished. Now, there is only death. — Sabaa Tahir

Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters. — Sabaa Tahir

Nan always said that as long as there is life, there is hope. — Sabaa Tahir

Islam has nothing to do with any act of terrorism. We reject every act of extremism and terrorism unconditionally. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Just because he's a good leader doesn't mean he's a good person. — Sabaa Tahir

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa. — Tahir Shah

Laia is the wild dance of a Tribal campfire, while Helene is the cold blue of an alchemist's flame. — Sabaa Tahir

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds. — Mirza Tahir Ahmad

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell. — Tahir Shah

When you love, there is always more pain. "Men — Sabaa Tahir

You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release. — Sabaa Tahir

Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be. — Sabaa Tahir

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation. — Tahir Shah

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. — Tahir Shah

Sorry is a callous inadequacy. — Sabaa Tahir