You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise. — Sabaa Tahir Everybody Copy Share Image
I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction. — Sabaa Tahir Book Copy Share Image
People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents. — Sabaa Tahir Horrible Copy Share Image
“I don't need to believe in the supernatural. Not when there's worse that roams the night.” — Sabaa Tahir Night Copy Share Image
“It’s nice to be admired, Laia, by someone who means well. It’s nice to be thought beautiful.” — Sabaa Tahir Admired Copy Share Image
Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on. — Sabaa Tahir Back Copy Share Image
I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers. — Sabaa Tahir Books Copy Share Image
If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could… — Sabaa Tahir Children Copy Share Image
What is a nightstand without Mindy Kaling? I dip into her 'Why Not Me?' when I've had a particularly rough day. Her… — Sabaa Tahir Anecdotes Copy Share Image
I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away… — Sabaa Tahir Books Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I felt so hemmed in and trapped, both by the place I lived and the expectations others had about… — Sabaa Tahir Expectations Copy Share Image
Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view. — Sabaa Tahir Case Copy Share Image
“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just… — Sabaa Tahir Emotions Copy Share Image
My readers and I, we have the same taste, and it's awesome. They'll tell me about stuff that I haven't heard of. — Sabaa Tahir About Copy Share Image
I think that YA stories have a lot of heart, and I think that whatever age we are, we connect to them… — Sabaa Tahir Age Copy Share Image
“I look up at the stars hanging low in a sky that makes me think I'm seeing the infinite. But beneath their… — Sabaa Tahir Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Speaking to him would mean learning about him. Understanding him. Maybe befriending him. I know what it is to travel with someone,… — Sabaa Tahir Friendship Copy Share Image
For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After… — Sabaa Tahir Books Copy Share Image
'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading… — Sabaa Tahir Daughter Copy Share Image
“After we left Serra,” Keenan says, “we’d been walking—running, really, for hours. When we finally stopped and settled into our rolls for… — Sabaa Tahir Astronomy Copy Share Image
In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions… — Sabaa Tahir Eyes Copy Share Image
When I went to college, it was so easy. And I worked two jobs while I was in school all the way… — Sabaa Tahir Comparison Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't feel strong. I felt weak. I felt like a scared little kid. So I naturally… — Sabaa Tahir Books 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… — Sabaa Tahir Beauty Copy Share Image
I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid. — Sabaa Tahir Felt Copy Share Image
I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked. — Sabaa Tahir College 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… — Sabaa Tahir Children Copy Share Image
“Tell us a story. Something scary.” She shivers in anticipation, and Cook makes a strange sound that could be a laugh or… — Sabaa Tahir Humor Copy Share Image
I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base.… — Sabaa Tahir Asian 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.… — Sabaa Tahir Emotions 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 Actually Copy Share Image
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second… — Sabaa Tahir Courage 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,… — Sabaa Tahir Doesn Answer Copy Share Image
Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange… — Sabaa Tahir Help Copy Share Image
