“You understand why you must go through with this marriage.You say you couldnt live with yourself if anything happened to Caspida. Yet you ask me to live with myself, knowing I sentenced you to this...”

“I know who you are, he says.Something about his tone causes my heart of smoke to flicker in response, and I throw my guard up. Oh? And who, O boy of Parthenia, am I?He nods to himself, his eyes ali...”

“I always knew it would end like this. It always does. Theres no point in fighting it, Aladdin. It is simply the way of things.I cant accept that.You must.How can you just give up? How can you say t...”

“Find me, my thief.”

“For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.”

“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into histo...”

“You understand why you must go through with this marriage.You say you couldnt live with yourself if anything happened to Caspida. Yet you ask me to live with myself, knowing I sentenced you to this...”

“Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance fo...”

“I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”