🐦⬛ 𝐖𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐄 — quotes taken from the first novel in hafsah faizal's sands of arawiya duology. some edits have been made to allow for rp purposes. feel free to adjust for pronouns/names/etc.
❝ We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves. ❞
❝ A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun. ❞
❝ Heart of my heart. Moon of my soul. ❞
❝ If I told you my name, would you bow? Or would you flee? ❞
❝ A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence. ❞
❝ Bring the desert to its knees. ❞
❝ He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars. ❞
❝ Love is for children. Death is for fools. ❞
❝ Suffering is our fate. ❞
❝ There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable. ❞
❝ Promise me that if you die, you will die fighting to return to me. ❞
❝ Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity. ❞
❝ Darkness is my destiny. ❞
❝ There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence. ❞
❝ But eyes couldn't stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed. ❞
❝ Monsters preferred solitude. ❞
❝ Together, we will raise the dunes from the earth and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything. ❞
❝ He didn't live. He existed. And no one understood the difference between the two until they ceased to live. ❞
❝ They'll tell stories about us. ❞
❝ Death is the one thing certain in human life. Why does it still come as a surprise when it happens? ❞
❝ If you want me obedient, ___, kill me and carry my corpse. ❞
❝ He would not fear the darkness. He was the darkness. ❞
❝ A monster will always be enslaved to a master. ❞
❝ Sometimes, when you live a life of captivity, trapped for so long, freedom becomes a thing to fear. ❞
❝ May your hearts remain entwined beyond death. ❞
❝ The first step to getting anywhere is believing you can. ❞
❝ He came here for one act alone: murder. ❞
❝ He's not always this grumpy. Then again, he's one of those people who talks less and murders more. ❞
❝ A person without hope is a body without a soul. ❞
❝ People lived because she killed. ❞
❝ People died because he lived. ❞
❝ Who decides what's out of reach, if not we ourselves? ❞
❝ You are the compass in the storm, the guide in the dark. You will always find your way. ❞
❝ This was pain worse than a sword. This was forgetting and then remembering everything afresh, the curse of memories. ❞
❝ Men can be such beautiful trash. ❞
❝ A life without purpose is no life at all. ❞
❝ You remind me that hope is not lost. ❞
❝ That was life, wasn't it? A collection of moments, a menagerie of people. Everyone stranded everywhere, always. ❞
❝ Confidence breeds freedom. ❞
❝ No one can be that pure. ❞
❝ Death will be her companion. He's kept her safe all this time. Why stop now? ❞
❝ If only you knew what it was like to feel the weight of your gaze. ❞
❝ I just think that once you're bound to another, you change. That for the happiness of the one you love, and for your own, you change without knowing it. ❞
❝ That does not mean I cannot love a monster. ❞
❝ What are you? To define is to limit. ❞
❝ If you're going to save the world, you might as well do it in style! ❞
❝ Congratulations, ___. You're officially a murderer. Welcome to the club. ❞
❝ Think of all the women you can help by being you. ❞
❝ Did you think this was your chance for redemption? Darkness is your destiny. You were born for hell. ❞
❝ Tragedies happen once; memories relive them eternally. ❞
❝ You do it for them. For them to love you. ❞
❝ I once loved. ❞
❝ How come something so painless as the loss of memory hurt so much? ❞
❝ A life with magic means nothing to me if you aren't in it. ❞
❝ You and I are strangers. ❞
❝ I'm big enough to keep anyone busy for awhile. ❞
❝ Will there ever come a time when you won't see me as a monster? ❞
❝ You care for him. ❞
❝ I've never seen a face so open. ❞










