Top 42 Alwyn Hamilton Quotes
#1. I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.
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#2. You're outnumbered.' That had never mattered much to me before. 'Drop the gun, Bandit.' Malik sneered.
'There's only one man who gets to call me that,' I said. 'And you're not near as good-looking as him.
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#3. It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.
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#4. It was damn hard to trust a boy with a smile like that.
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#5. God, I knew I was in trouble even then. I was running for my life, bleeding on your floor, and all I could think about was kissing you and damn if we got caught.
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#7. You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor
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#8. You can go to civilisation or go to hell, for all I care.' And it felt like the sand was stretching around my feet until that was all there was in the world, until Izman crept further and further away. 'I'm not leaving him for dead.
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#9. tomorrow the sun would rise on the first day of a new desert.
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#10. Amani." My eyes flew open. Jin was standing in the gates to Fahali. His face cleared as he saw me, and he ran toward me, relief written all over him. "Thank God."
"You don't believe in God," I said. It came out half a croak just as he closed the last of the space between us with a kiss.
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#11. So are you planning on stealing all our guns, or do you think maybe you only need one per hand? - Ahmed
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#12. Nobody had seen a Djinni in decades. Now all it took to burn down a den of sin was a girl, a foreigner and a whole mess of drunks.
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#13. I don't mean to worry you and all... but have you noticed you've been shot?'
'Ah... I'd almost forgotten about that.
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#14. Jin always smiled at me like we were both about to be in big trouble and he loved it. The prince smiled like he was forgiving you for it.
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#15. If she couldn't carve out a place for herself in Izman, what hope was I going to have?
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#16. I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.
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#17. I wouldn't point fingers if I were you. You know what they say: those who point fingers wind up with them broken so badly they point straight back at them. - Shazad
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#18. I was a desert girl. I thought I knew heat. I was wrong.
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#19. The night was screams, and the smell of gunpodwer, and my gun snapping shut with a fresh round in the chamber.
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#20. Arms around my waist caught me before I could hit the ground. "I've got you," Jin said in my ear. "Let go; I've got you.
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#21. Like I was about to say before getting interrupted, it's a modern age. I don't need a lot of muscle to pull a trigger.'
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'Did you just shoot someone?'
'I got us hired, if that's what you're asking.
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#22. But then, this was what the desert did to us. It made us dreamers with weapons.
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#23. For a second it looked like a mortal horse. The next it was pure sand. Shifting from bright gold to violent red, fire and sun in a windswept desert.
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#24. What else was I meant to do? Leave you to die?"
"You might've."
"I wouldn't have.
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#25. These ideas could make men shout for rebellion even when it meant they would hang for it.
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#26. I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.
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#27. My aunt Safiyah might be blood, but Jin I knew. And I didn't want to leave him. He made the world bigger. I wanted to go to the countries he'd been to. And more than anything I wanted him to ask me to go with him. But we were running out of time together.
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#28. Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe.
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#29. I didn't make you come here." Jin's eyes bored into mine, but I wasn't backing down. He said I had traitor eyes. Let him see the betrayal there. Let him drown in it. "I didn't trick you and I didn't ask you to.
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#30. Hundreds of prayer cloths were tied around rocks and stakes all the way up the mountain, but God had failed here.
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#31. Jin had told me once there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic.
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#33. What would I possibly know - I've only been stationed in the mountains of Iliaz for half a decade. I only heard Rocs screaming every night while you were still sleeping in the harem by your mother. But you know better, I'm sure.
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#34. She turned to Jin now, sprawled by the fire, his hat pulled over his eyes. "I can tell you're awake. Are you coming with us?" He sighed, tipping his hat backward. "Yeah, yeah. Just trying to get some sleep before going to near certain death.
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#35. I promised them that if they got my son out, I would show this city how a desert girl dies. - Shira
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#36. Tell me that and we'll go. Right now. Save ourselves and leave this place to burn. Tell me that's how you want your story to go and we'll write it straight across the sand.
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#37. But if knowledge was power, then the unknown was the greatest weakness of immortal things.
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#38. My mother had raised me on a thousand stories of girls who were saved by the Djinn, princesses rescued from towers, peasant girls rescued from poverty.
Turned out, stories were just stories.
I was on my own.
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#39. The world makes things for each place. Fish for the sea, Rocs for the mountain skies, and girls with sun in their skin and perfect aim for a desert that doesn't let weakness live.
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#40. I did this to stay alive. Because you are a vicious, stupid, impotent man. - Shira, to Kadir
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#42. I don't mean to worry you and all," I said, trying to keep my voice calm, "but have you noticed that you've been shot?"
"Ah." Looking at him closer now, I could see he was clutching the counter to stay upright. "I'd almost forgotten about that.
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