“I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.”

“My mother had raised me on a thousand stories of girls who were saved by the Djinn, princesses rescued from towers, peasant girls rescued from poverty.Turned out, stories were just stories.I was on...”

“It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.”

“I called the desert into a storm.”

“I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first," I objected without thinking.”

“I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”

“Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")”

“To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.”