A Song Of Wraiths And Ruin Quotes
"You are no good to me or yourself when you work yourself to exhaustion."
"You haven’t even taken any interest in Solstasia, despite it being our most important custom."
"I have never said or done anything dramatic in my life."
"Because pouring her heart into her music was the only thing that ever made her feel like herself these days."
"Everything you own belongs to our people and our city."
"The past devours those naive enough to forget it."
"Relax, boy. Tonight is not the night you die."
"Magic was real. It was everywhere, seeped into the foundations of Ziran with those who lived there none the wiser."
"Solstasia is not just a festival; it is a ritual, and without it, the Barrier will fall."
"The only person I’m interested in marrying is the one who can catch me the moon with their bare hands."
"All I’ve ever asked is that you respect the responsibilities being sultana entails."
"I can’t do this. I can’t be you, and I can’t live in Ziran for the rest of my life."
"This magic had protected them for a thousand years, and only her family knew."
"I’d be ready if you would teach me like you did Hanane!"
"I’m not Hanane, right? Everyone’s always thinking it!"
"The only reason he was even here was to find a way to kill her."
"The fool who chases after hares will forever have an empty plate."
"Our job is not to convince the hare there is no danger."
"Our job is to make the hare enter the trap even knowing it’s there."
"If you fail the task I have given you, I will rip out this child’s throat."
"But you, Malik? If you fail me, you will live."
"You will spend every minute of the rest of your life knowing your sister died when it was completely in your power to save her."
"Not a day goes by when I don’t hear her voice in my head like—like—like she’s still here."
"I’ve buried my parents, Hanane, your father, your mother—don’t make me bury you too."
"She loved you. Maybe not in the way you wanted or needed but in her own way. She loved you."
"Everyone remembers Bahia Alahari for founding Ziran. But before that, she lived as a slave in the pharaoh’s household, and avoiding this fate was the original reason she rebelled."
"The Kennouans believed that anything they were buried with when they died came to the afterlife with them."
"I’m scared of a lot of things. Small spaces. Big dogs. Dying... dying alone."
"Do you know what it’s like to be surrounded by the reminders of those who detest your very existence?"
"This is... I don’t even know what to say. But you have every right to be scared by it."
"Blessed Adanko, I ask for your protection."
"To be an Alahari is to be part of a lineage that has toppled dynasties and overthrown kings. It is being able to do extraordinary things. One day, you will do extraordinary things too."
"I can’t stay here and watch you together with Tunde. I just can’t."
"Despite all that had gone wrong between them, Tunde still touched her so gently, as if she were someone who deserved to be loved and cherished."
"She was neither a reflection of them nor a replacement, but rather everything they’d been, combined to form something completely new."
"Neither of us is ever going to win this fight. Why don’t you come with me? Maybe we can figure a way out of this together."
"In this world, there is no thunder before lightning. No betrayal before trust, no dusk before dawn. And now, there is no me before you."
"It’s fine! I got stabbed by some sort of weapon."
"You’ve experienced intense trauma, been overworked, and still expected to function at full capacity without enough sleep. I understand."
"Never, not once, had Farid led Karina astray. Maybe now was the time to start listening to him."
"I named you Malik because I knew you were strong like the kings of old, and no one could take that strength from you."
"But it’s also true that to aid even one person is to save an entire world."
"You are not strong in body, no. No one will ever sing songs about your physical prowess. But you are kind, Malik Hilali."
"The glory of storytelling during the Second Challenge. The way the people had believed in him as their Champion with all their hearts and souls."
"No creature is meant to live like that. I’m sorry for what it did to you."
"This is my mind. I am the strongest person here."
"The people meant to help you are often far closer than you realize."
"All these years of planning, and it ends like this."
"You stopped being my family the moment my dear wife killed our son to build her Barrier and banished me to a rotting hellscape."
"I promised Hanane I would find a way to destroy that wretched Barrier."
"The dead are the dead are the dead, boy. There is a big difference between a living person and a lich."
"Even when my own mind is threatening to tear me apart, I fight."