“Peoples desires were easy to read, clear as bottled glass and just as sturdy.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“Mena wondered if her grandmother, the djinn, had ever thought of reshaping the world so it was more amenable to her. A world of hot wind and bursting stars, where women walked strong and brown and proud over land that sang to their bones, where the fires that burned in their veins were lights in the firmament and not threats to be smothered into nothingness at all costs.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“You have embraced silence. Your wings make no sound. Language is for prey, for what the wizard-nation hunts. You are not prey, not anymore.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“He told me my whole life happened because I got things other people weren't using, and since he's been gone I've lived my whole life on that same principle. He told me a lot of things, and the most important of those things is never, ever to use the word wish.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“You treat that Mama Abassi like your second mother," it had said. "But you don't ever wonder if she's just keeping you under control? Or even making use of your talents?”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“Djinn. Ghuls. Sorcerers. Never had to worry about this in my grandfather's day.”
Source: A Dead Djinn in Cairo
“Hope is the quiet assurance that light still remains, even in the darkest moments.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Liquid silver and silk...”
“Fear one thing in all that is…
Fear the Djinn.”
“Vomit, piss, blood, and unlikely amounts of semen pooled on almost every level surface, accompanied by lewd graffiti and knife marks gouging the walls, as well as various fist-sized holes, burns, acid scars, and other inexplicable damages if a convention of well-armed psychopaths had decided to distill their annual rampage into a single night.”
Source: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday