Quotes From "A Torch Against The Night" By Sabaa Tahir

Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them - or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything? Sabaa Tahir

You fool, Helene. When you love, there is always more pain. Sabaa Tahir

Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body’s instincts take over. When you see it closing in like a Martial death squad, you harden your insides. You prepare for the agony of a shredded heart. And when it hits, it hurts, but not as badly, because you have locked away your weakness, and all that’s left is anger and strength. Sabaa Tahir

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

It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail. Sabaa Tahir

It's a trick question, Aquilla. A Mask is not made. She is remade. First she is destroyed. Stripped down to the trembling child that lives at her core. It doesn't matter how strong she thinks she is. Blackcliff diminishes, humiliates, and humbles her." "But if she survives, she is reborn. She rises from the shadow world of failure and despair so that she might become as fearful as that which destroyed her. So that she might know darkness and use it as her scim and shield in her mission to serve the Empire. Sabaa Tahir

Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything? Sabaa Tahir

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. Sabaa Tahir

You’re sure this is what you want?” I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells“ I’m sure”“ Then I’ll find a way Sabaa Tahir

Elias and Laia are each other’s countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note. Sabaa Tahir

The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things. Sabaa Tahir

Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand. Sabaa Tahir

Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy. Sabaa Tahir

So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand? Sabaa Tahir