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1 " 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 "
― Alwyn Hamilton , Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
2 " I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it. "
― Alwyn Hamilton , Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
3 " We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this. "
― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
4 " I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up. "
5 " It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner. "
6 " I called the desert into a storm. "
7 " 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. "
8 " I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck. "
9 " Ahmed looked shocked, his hands digging into my arms. 'But you love him,' he said softly. 'You love him, and you should save him. That' what people do with those they love, Amani -- they save them.' No iT wasn't. Sam had taught me that. Great love stories ended in death. All stories ended in death sooner or later. Ours was ending sooner. "
10 " And so here i was, my hands tied so tight behind my back i was losing feeling in them and a fresh wound on my collarbone where a knife had just barely missed my neck. Funny how being successful felt exactly the same as getting captured. "
11 " If the throne changes hands, we will be invaded. My son is an idealist. Idealists make great leaders, but they never make good rulers. So I'll tell you what I believe, Amani. I believe that if my son's rebellion were ever to succeed, or even gain enough of a foothold to cast doubt upon my rule, we would be torn to shreds by foreign powers. It would destroy Miraji, just like my father would have destroyed it before us. - The Sultan "
12 " He must've heard we were on our way. But I had the feeling iT wasn't the News of our numbers or our weapons that made him flee. It was the news that the rebel prince had returned from the dead. We didn't even have to fight with the tale of Ahmed preceding us. That was the power of a legend. "
13 " He held out a foreign-looking sword to Shazad. "Are you as good as Amani says you are?""No, I'm even better." Shazad grabbed the blade out of his hand. "
14 " The ceasefire had started. Next would come the negotations. Then the peace between the sultan and the invaders. And without the need to mind his shores, the desert ruler's eyes would turn inward again. The Foreign prince understood it was time to return to his brother. Their rebellion was about to turn into a war. "
15 " Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert. [...]But he wondered if a boy from the sea and a girl from the desert could ever survive together. He feared that she might burn him alive or that he might drown her. Until finally he stopped fighting it and set himself on fire for her. "
16 " You're right." He cut me off. "I never understood this country. I never understood why he chose to leave everything else behind and stay for this. Not until I met you."I felt like he'd pushed me, like I was falling and I needed him to reel those words back in to keep me standing straight."You /are/ this country, Amani." He spoke more quietly now. "More alive than anything ought to be in this place. All fire and gunpowder, with one finger always on the trigger. "
17 " 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. "
18 " The truth is I had no idea what I was doing when it came to you, Amani. I tried to leave you in Dustwalk because I didn't want to drag you into my brother's war. I came back for you because I didn't want to see you die at the hands of my other brother. But either way, I was bound to wind up doing one or the other. Just depended on which one." His hand came up like he was going to reach for me but dropped to his side instead. "I was glad in Sazi when I saw you'd gone because it meant you'd escaped on your own path, and I was glad when you took the compass because it gave me a reason to go after you. And yes, I lied to keep you out of Izman because I was afraid someone would know what you were and you'd get snapped up and sold to the Sultan. And I steered you toward Dassama figuring there was a chance I might be able to deliver you to the sea and get you out of this country before it killed you. "
19 " She was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger "
20 " I swear to God, if he's hurt you, Amani, I will make him suffer for it." "You don't believe in God." "Then I swear to you. "
