Mirage Quotes
"Like all things from the old order, it called to me."
"When Dihya wanted to give you a sign He slipped the feather into your hand."
"A foolhardy man who died grieving all he did not accomplish."
"Hope is a younger girl’s game, and you find more comfort in it than I do."
"I was running from love," she said. "Your father, to be specific."
"The blood never dies. The blood never forgets."
"I wanted something else, something more tangible and immediate. I wanted the world."
"Even a rock wore away to nothing if asked to endure enough rain."
"You will ask for things to be passed to you. If not, you will use a fork."
"Are you running a zoo or do you expect me to pick it up?"
"You will learn a great many things in the Ziyaana."
"There is no escape from what they want. Only survival."
"We held large banquets that went far into the night, where we sang and played instruments and conversed."
"Dancing with a human was different from dancing with a droid."
"I couldn’t help remembering the last time someone had adorned me with beautiful jewelry—my mother, on my majority night."
"I had not realized how much I had missed looking into faces I understood, faces that looked like my kin."
"My life had been a series of events happening to me, and I wanted so desperately to be able to exert the control Massinia managed on my own life."
"I knew how the Vath worked; we all did. Failure was not an option."
"Believe, for We know things you do not. And We see what you do not."
"But I lived in the Ziyaana now. Though my heart belonged to me, my body no longer did."
"The only time I’d been so high up was my journey to the planet’s surface, and I remembered that only in bits and pieces."
"You cannot fix this. He is not yours to help—he belongs to another."
"I had succeeded in the impossible. Pride swelled inside me."
"His voice was low as he said, 'Thank you for doing this. I know you’re risking a lot. But I wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t important.'"
"I wasn’t sure what inspired me to say the words in Kushaila, but I did. 'Dowager Sultana,' I said. 'I’m not Maram.'"
"She told me, everyone in the Ziyaana will tell you to resign yourself to being crushed. Do not. Even your happiness is rebellion."
"You are not a doll. You may not dress her up and send her where you please. She is a shield."
"She smiled. 'Save your pity for the young and the dead, girl,' she said. 'It won’t help me.'"
"No gratitude is required for what is freely given."
"I could feel the whole world between us waiting for us to choose. For me to choose."
"Trial and tribulation is how poems are penned."
"When he first approached me, his beauty seduced my heart."
"Who will soothe my complaints, born of suffering a love unfulfilled."
"We wouldn’t be who we are if we could run away."
"We’re apart. But nothing will change that I love you."
"Fear and hatred are good deterrents against murderers."
"You must think of the days and years to come as a shatranj board."
"There is still time to weaken their assault. You have proven very useful, my friend."
"The Vathek idea of good food is unseasoned and dry, Your Highness."