Zafira And Nasir Quotes

If I told you my name, would you bow?” His voice was soft. A melancholy caress. He lifted his chin when understanding dawned on her face. “Or would you flee?

...and he laughed a laugh she loved more than the warmest of fires on the coldest of nights.

But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.

A monster. For a monster will always be enslaved to a master.

The beauty that withstands all. Stubborn in the harshest of atmospheres.

He’s a murderer. And she was starting to forget that he was.

I understand in some way,” she corrected. “To have words collect on your tongue, but feel as if they aren’t worth voicing. To feel as if no one wants to listen.

Strange, isn’t it,’ said Nasir, who was never one for contemplation. ‘How the darkness brought us together, and the light will let us fall apart?’ Zafira shook her head, looking among them. ‘We’re not falling apart. We hunted the flame on Sharr, set free the stars across the skies, but it was only ever the dawn of our zumra. Now we make sure that light doesn’t go out. Forever. Together.

You are your strength.

To define is to limit.

Only Zafira could find them. He had to stop walking when he voiced her name in his head for the first time.