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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
— Tahir Shah
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
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
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 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
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
Islam has nothing to do with any act of terrorism. We reject every act of extremism and terrorism unconditionally.
— Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
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
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
Sorry is a callous inadequacy.
— Sabaa Tahir