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61 " I believe money and guns get you a lot further in a war than magic these days. "
― Alwyn Hamilton , Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
62 " 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.'...'Did you just shoot someone?''I got us hired, if that's what you're asking. "
63 " The stories of Izman had belonged to my mother. But the world was a lot bigger than my mother ever told me. And it occurred to me once or twice that I could go anywhere in it. "
64 " I'd near forgotten what it felt like to be a girl in Miraji. I was inconspicuous, but not the same way I'd been as a boy. Not because I was the same as everyone else. Because I didn't matter. Nobody in Miraji had ever thought enough of a girl to imagine I might be a spy. "
65 " Ahmed would tell me that an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. Shazad would tell me that was why you had to stab people through both eyes the first time around. "
― Alwyn Hamilton , Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
66 " I wasn’t up to no good. Then again, I wasn’t exactly up to no bad neither. "
67 " These ideas could make men shout for rebellion even when it meant they would hang for it. "
68 " We contained our own stories. A thousand tiny parts of the story would die with us. "
― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)
69 " And suddenly, the once-nameless boy knew he didn't want a stolen name, tarnished with use. What he wanted desperately was a name good enough to give to this girl. "
70 " tomorrow the sun would rise on the first day of a new desert. "
71 " But there, standing at the entrance to the garden, wearing a khalat the colour of a breaking dawn and that faint smile that meant she knew she was outsmarting someone, was Shazad. "
72 " 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. "
73 " Hundreds of prayer cloths were tied around rocks and stakes all the way up the mountain, but God had failed here. "
74 " The Rebel Prince will rise again.He will bring a new dawn. A new desert. "
75 " For you I would flood the desert. For my sister... I would set the sea on fire "
76 " 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. "
77 " Her wish was simple: that you should live. - Bahadur, to Amani, about her mother. "
78 " The tales would be imperfect; the legends would be incomplete. And each and every one of us standing in the garden that night would take an entire universe of stories with us when we died, the accounts of every small moment that did not seem grand enough to storytellers, which would disappear in smoke when our bodies were burned. "
79 " We all knew the stories. Djinn who fell in love with worthy princesses and gave them all of their hearts’ wishes. Pretty girls who lured Nightmares straight onto men’s blades. Brave merchants’ daughters who caught Buraqi and rode them to the ends of the earth.They were drawn to us, but also vulnerable to us. We could turn them into flesh and blood. "
80 " And the storyteller began. "