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“You insist you're a monster because you're afraid of being human.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“But my heart is a treacherous star, refusing to dim when the sun rises”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“Find me, my thief.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“If it's a monster they want, then a monster they shall have.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“There is only one thing more numerous than the stars, and that is the darkness that holds them.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“You've ruled before, so tell me, does it get easier?"
"No, but you get stronger.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“What good is it Habiba, to deny the truth? Your friendship woke something in me all those centuries ago, some dormant humanity that had lingered through the years, and after you died, it recoiled and hid again.
But Aladdin has woken it once more. With his sun-bright smile and his laughing eyes and his way of asking the hardest kind of questions. After you, I swore to never love again.
But I love him.
And so I must let him go.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“Unable to go forward, afraid to go back”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“May you carry the weight of this betrayal to your grave.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“We mourn what has been lost, and tomorrow, we rise.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“Less a point on a map and more a region of the soul, but it is a path I can follow.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“I am the weed cast out of the rose garden. I am the crow chased out of the dovecote.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“Every glance, every touch, every whisper between us has been a pebble added to the scales, tipping me toward a new direction.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“All the world is in your shadow, Zahra.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“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.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“I do, 'Merama,' Deven piped up. 'I know exactly what she means. We need to send them love and see them coming home in our mind. If we wish and believe we can be together again.'
'Yas!' said Zahra strongly. 'Young one has knowing. You must that do!”
― Marcha A. Fox, Beyond the Hidden Sky

“All I wanted was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are rules by a monster.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“Zahra is the light. My job is to keep her safe and watch her shine while using my knowledge to guide us to the day of our redemption.”
― Brian Arthur Levene, The Terrorist's Daughters

“I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish