Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit here and wither away in paradise? Just an obstacle. Just an obstacle. I meet the ifrit's eyes. What happened to all your talk about birds and fish having nowhere to live? The ifrit shrugs. I suggest you start holding your breath, my friend, he says, then pushes through the hearing room doors.

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.