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I thought: but someone has to fight Them, all the same, even if no one knows how. In the books, in the movies, someone always has to fight back. Not to end up in the stories later, not to be rewarded with fame and praise and book deals. They just knew someone had to fight. Had to.
from Beneath the Rising (The Void #1), by Premee Mohamed
It’s so tough to be young; it’s so tough that the only way I assume adults are able to function is that they have forgotten this, that they don’t remember a time when they didn’t know anything and knowledge was kept from them, and they railed at the gatekeepers. And whatever the gatekeepers were—time, bosses, parents, teachers, luck—they would not have remembered being young either. School was a fucking waste if all it did was let you graduate with a head full of questions and no way to get them answered.
from Beneath the Rising (The Void #1), by Premee Mohamed
I thought: but someone has to fight Them, all the same, even if no one knows how. In the books, in the movies, someone always has to fight back. Not to end up in the stories later, not to be rewarded with fame and praise and book deals. They just knew someone had to fight. Had to.
from Beneath the Rising (The Void #1), by Premee Mohamed
That’s the thing about loyalty. There’s the kind where you’re loyal because of self-interest—because if you stay close to someone till they trust you, your life will be better, maybe the lives of your family and friends, maybe the city, the country, the world, I don’t know. And then there’s the other kind. Where you get nothing. And it’s because of love. And you die, in the end, with nothing but that. But love.
from The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed
Peace at last. Of course things are very peaceful when you don’t fight back.
from The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed
Memory is not resurrection.
from The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed
The thing about being in love is that it’s not real until you realize it. The moment you do, that’s it: that’s where you start the clock. You weren’t in love before that. Hatred is different. Hatred creeps up on you. Winds itself through you, hair-fine, invisible. So that when you realize that you are in hate, it’s always been there, it’s become a part of you, it doesn’t belong to you but it is of you.
from The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed
You know that saying about how a lie gets around the world twice before the truth puts its shoes on? Lies aren’t just fast; they’re heavy, too. They’re big, beautiful buildings and they weigh a lot and they have a lot of room inside them and they’re very pleasing to the eye. You build one over the truth, you’ll never see the truth again. It’ll be dead, buried under there, a little insignificant thing.
from The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed
