Sabaa Tahir

It was hard to feel hated as a child.

— Sabaa Tahir

Ani DiFranco - I love her.

— Sabaa Tahir

“The body does not lie, even if the mind does.”

— Sabaa Tahir

“an ember in the ashes,”

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“I don't need to believe in the supernatural. Not when there's worse that roams the night.”

— Sabaa Tahir

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

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I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.

— Sabaa Tahir

You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise.

— Sabaa Tahir

People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.

— Sabaa Tahir

Young readers can sense when you're not addressing what's actually going on.

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“I make myself smile at him—Pop always said you could never smile too much at a baby.”

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I find booksellers comforting - they're my people.

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Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn't matter as much as what lurks in your…

— Sabaa Tahir

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange…

— Sabaa Tahir

I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base.…

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“Your emotions make you human, Elias said to me weeks ago in the Serran Range. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose.…

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“Tell us a story. Something scary.” She shivers in anticipation, and Cook makes a strange sound that could be a laugh or…

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“I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you…

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“So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That…

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“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

“Most people,” Cain says, “are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark.…

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Like so many other young South Asians in America, I am the product of two cultures whose conflicting values pull at me…

— Sabaa Tahir

When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I…

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When I went to college, it was so easy. And I worked two jobs while I was in school all the way…

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When I was growing up, I didn't feel strong. I felt weak. I felt like a scared little kid. So I naturally…

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If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you…

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Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.…

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When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with…

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“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

I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers.

— Sabaa Tahir

I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.

— Sabaa Tahir

“It’s nice to be admired, Laia, by someone who means well. It’s nice to be thought beautiful.”

— Sabaa Tahir

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

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The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.

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I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles.

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“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second…

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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

“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

I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked.

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I think that YA stories have a lot of heart, and I think that whatever age we are, we connect to them…

— Sabaa Tahir