“It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“From the stars, to the stars.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“No. He was not here to wreak revenge.
For revenge was trifling and hollow.
No. He was not here to retrieve his wife.
For his wife was not a thing to be retrieved.
No. He was not here to negotiate a truce.
For a truce suggested he wished to compromise.
He was here to burn something to the ground.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“I’ve missed the silence of you listening to me.” Shahrzad attempted a weak smile. “No one listens to me as you do.” His expression turned quizzical. “You don’t wait to speak,” she clarified. “You truly listen.” “Only to you,” Khalid replied gently.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“That is not the way of it. Your future is not set in stone, my dearest star. A coin turns on itself a number of times before it lands.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Two stubborn lovers, protecting each other from the very same threat.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Destiny was for fools. Sharzad would not wait for her life to happen. She would make it happen.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“A boy who'd thrived in the shadows.
Now he had to live in the light.
To live . . . fiercely.
To fight for every breath.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“It was never about belonging to someone. It was belonging together.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“No. He was not here to retrieve his wife. For his wife was not a thing to be retrieved.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“For a story was only as good as its villain.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“When I was in the desert, I woke each day and carried on with my life, but it wasn’t living; it was merely existing. I want to live. You are where I live.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“if you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down ”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“A trickle of blood slid down his arm.
He felt nothing. He only saw it.
Because nothing hurt like missing her.
He suspected nothing ever would”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Are you finally starting to breathe in a normal fashion?” Shahrzad teased. “I must confess I find your behavior rather odd, considering you said only a child would be afraid to fly.”
“I wasn’t afraid.” Khalid wrapped a forearm of corded muscle around her. She slanted a disbelieving look his way. “You just lied to me.”
“I wasn’t afraid,” he repeated. “I was terrified.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Some things do not have to be said. You didn’t have to tell me you were in love with Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. And I didn’t have to tell you I cried myself to sleep for weeks after you left. Love speaks for itself.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“It was easy to be good and kind in times of plenty. The trying times were the moments that defined a man.
And love? Love was something that did much to change a person. It brought joy as it brought suffering, and in turn brought about those moments that defined one’s character. Love gave life to the lifeless. It was the greatest of all living powers.
But, as with all things, love had a dark side to it.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“The power behind words lies with the person.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Beauty fades. But a pain in the ass is forever.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Sometimes," he gasped, "the family you choose...is stronger than blood.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“It's much easier to hate a memory. I would know.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Sharzad was rewarded with one of his uncommonly effortless smiles. The kind that changed a face of shadows into one of light".”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Understood what it meant to feel at home wherever you were. To feel as though you belonged in any moment, at any place, in any time.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
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“I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.”
― David Nicholls, quote from One Day
“In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his desk at work, or during a meeting, or drifting off to sleep, or standing in the mornings under the shower. They are scenes he has carried within him, buried but intact, scenes he has never thought about or had reason to conjure up until now.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, quote from The Namesake
“If one sets aside time
for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition,
that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone,
one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being
alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one
practices it—like a secret vice!”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, quote from Gift from the Sea
“Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Cosmos
“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Ender's Shadow
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