“Tell us a story. Something scary.” She shivers in anticipation, and Cook makes a strange sound that could be a laugh or a groan. “Life isn’t scary enough for you, girl?” — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“The tapping grows insistent, and I turn, intending to tell off the Cadet. Instead, I'm faced with a slave-girl looking up at me through impossibly long eyelashes. A heated, visceral shock flares through me at the clarity of her dark… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“In the end, I don't answer her question. She doesn't answer mine. Instead, we sit without words, watching the city, the river, the desert… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.” — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that,… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Your emotions make you human, Elias said to me weeks ago in the Serran Range. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. If you… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
