Top 42 Shahrzad Quotes
#1. Shahrzad paused. Then made a decision. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
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#2. I love you, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. There is nothing I would not do for you. Nothing I would not consider if it meant keeping you safe. The world itself should fear me if it stands between us.
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#3. Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.
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#4. I've missed the silence of you listening to me." Shahrzad attempted a weak smile. "No one listens to me as you do." His expression turned quizzical. "You don't wait to speak," she clarified. "You truly listen." "Only to you," Khalid replied gently.
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#5. Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have been."
"This morning and last night."
His breath fanned on her skin as he bent toward her ear. "This morning, I was not where I should have been. Last night, I was not where I wanted to be.
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#6. If you are just one girl, I am just one boy." Shahrzad
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#7. You sent Shahrzad away with a boy I would not trust with a dying snake.
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#8. Shahrzad followed him with her eyes, aware she likely resembled a predator stalking prey.
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#9. Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmth crept up Shahrzad's neck. "Knows about what?"
Despina grinned. "The Caliph of Khorasan going into the gardens at dawn alone. And returning with a single rose.
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#10. I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble." Shahrzad gripped Irsa's hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. "But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.
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#11. And, with a kiss, Shahrzad let herself fall.
For the boy who was an impossible, improbable study in contrasts. The boy who burned her life to cinder, only to remake of it a world unlike any she had ever known.
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#12. Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness. "I've always loved them for their beauty and their scent, but--"
"It's because of their thorns." His muscles tensed at her touch. "Because there's more to them than first meets the eye.
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#13. Shahrzad took a deep breath. "Tariq - " "I'm not leaving without you!" He spun around and pulled her against him. "This is not your fight! It never should have been your fight!" At
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#14. And how will you know when you've found this elusive someone?" Shahrzad retorted.
"I suspect she will be like air. Like knowing how to breathe." He regarded her with the stillness of a hawk as he said these words, and Shahrzad's throat went dry.
"Poetry," she whispered. "Not reality.
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#15. I will live to see tomorrow's sunset. Make no mistake. I swear. I will live to see as many sunsets as it takes. And I will kill you. With my bare hands.
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#16. The mighty Caliph of Khorasan. The King of Kings. Her beautiful monster.
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#17. She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves without a second thought. With a mere smile and a wrinkle of her nose.
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#18. When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she knew, as he knew, that they were lost. Lost forever. In this kiss. This kiss that would change everything.
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#19. I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else's hands. But, if you don't, how will you ever truly know a person?
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#20. You are not weak. You are not indecisive. You are strong. Fierce. Capable beyond measure.
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#21. For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?
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#22. I never lose, nor am I afraid to spill blood.
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#23. When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn't over yet. Our story may have come to a close, but your story is still yet to be told.
Make it a story worthy of you
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#24. The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
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#25. This dangerous girl. This captivating beauty.
This destroyer of worlds and creator of wonder.
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#26. We women are a sad lot, aren't we?"
"What do you mean?"
"Strong enough to take on the world with our bare hands, yet we permit ridiculous boys to make fools of us."
"I am not a fool."
"No, you're not. Not yet.
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#27. And only those watching very carefully saw the Caliph of Khorasan lean back against the cushions and toy with the bangles on his wife's arm.
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#28. So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?"
"Shazi?" Jalal's grin widened. "Honestly, I pity the wolves.
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#29. A true plague of a girl. And yet a queen in every sense of the word.
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#30. I love you, she said. Khalid lifted his head to hers. She placed a hand against his cheek. Beyond words.
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#32. Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done.
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#33. The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.
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#34. The tears and the pain all but blinding her, she forced open her eyes one more time, to a curtain of dark hair; to a waterfall of black ink spilling across the last page of her life.
No.
I'm not nothing.
I was loved.
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#35. You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.
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#36. Jalal," she said, "I can explain."
"There's no need."
"I'm not - "
"I told you; there's no need." He spoke simply. "I trust you.
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#37. There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.
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#38. My favorite color is violet. The scent of roses makes me feel at home, wherever I am. I do not enjoy fish, but I will eat it to make a loved one happy, suffering through my smile.
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#39. It's a fitting punishment for a monster. to want something so much - to hold it in your arms - and know beyond a doubt you will never deserve it.
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#40. In my life, the one thing I have learned above all is that no individual can reach the height of their potential without the love of others
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#41. You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and you have a responsibility to a kingdom."
"If you are just one girl, I am just one boy.
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#42. The moment I saw him running toward you that morning, I knew you were going to save him, just as he saved you.
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