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141 " He was stronger than she was. Of that, there was no doubt. She could not best him physically. But I’m not here to fight. I’m here to win. "
― Renée Ahdieh , The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
142 " Shahrzad closed her eyes in defeat and slid her palms to his chest. Then she reached behind him in an embrace of sandalwood and sun. Khalid wrapped both his arms around Shahrzad, and they stood together under the dome of the Grand Portico, with the indecipherable art of love poems giving silent testament. "
143 " Tomorrow, she could worry about such a thing as loyalty. Tomorrow, she could worry about the price of such betrayal. Tonight, all that mattered was this. Their hands threaded above her head. His low whisper in her ear. Just one boy and one girl. This. Oblivion. • "
144 " Why would you be curious as to where he found me, my lord? Are you in the market? "
145 " Then never speak of sending me away again. I am not yours to do with as you will.'Khalid's features smoothed knowingly. 'How right you are. You are not mine.' He dropped his palm from the door. 'I am yours. "
146 " But as you are young, I am old, and in my age, wisdom becomes less of a birthright and more of an expectation. 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. We are not meant to be alone, Shahrzad. The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most. "
147 " Her lips were hers one moment. And the they were his. "
148 " How right you are. You are not mine. I am yours. "
149 " You could always go home.""To my brothers and their screaming children?" Rahim scoffed. "To the constant attempts to marry me off to a cousin's friend's ugly sister? I think not. "
150 " Perhaps it was the lure of marrying a king. Or the vain hope you might be the one to stay the course and win the heart of a monster. "
151 " What’s done is done. But in the future, do better. She "
152 " I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. Jalal "
153 " 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. "
154 " 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. "
155 " Prove that a real man doesn’t make a show of what’s his. It just is.” “Is "
156 " Broad-shouldered, with skin of the desert and eyes of silver and ash, he was the kind of boy who turned heads and never noticed. The faint shadow of hair that darkened his jaw served only to accentuate features hewn from stone by the hand of a master sculptor. "
157 " know love is fragile. And loving someone like you is near impossible. Like holding something shattered through a raging sandstorm. If you want her to love you, shelter her from that storm . . . "
158 " There's nothing you can do about the past." "You're wrong. I can learn from it..." Tariq dug his heels into his stallion's flanks, and the horse shot forward, painting a dark smudge across the sand. "And I can make sure it never happens again! "
159 " Tariq, why are you doing this? Why are you fighting this battle?"Because I love her," Tariq said without hesitation."But...why do you love her?""What kind of a ridiculous question--""It is not a ridiculous question. It is a very simple one. The difficulty lies within the answer. Why do you love her?""Because--" Tariq rubbed the back of his neck. "All of my most cherished memories are of her. I've suffered alongside her. And...we've laughed at nothing together."Omar's hand fell from Tariq's shoulder. "A shared history does not entitle you to a future, my friend. "
160 " If you are just one girl, I am just one boy.” Shahrzad "