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Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3) QUOTES

Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " 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. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

3 " 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. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

4 " Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert.
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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. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

5 " She was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

6 " You're wrong, you know. I'm not with you because of who you became. I fell in love with you when I was bleeding under a counter at the dead end of the desert and you saved my life. Back when we were both who we used to be. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

7 " Gentlemen,' he said dramatically as he rose, kicking his chair back out of the way, 'your infidelity leaves me no choice but to fold this hand. But I Will return hen I've had Some luck rub off on me.' He winked widely, pulling me tight against him by the waist. Thumbscrews. The way I murdered him was going to include thumbscrews. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

8 " But even if the desert forgot a thousand and one of our stories, it was enough that they would tell of us at all. That long after our deaths, men and women sitting around a fire would hear that once, long ago, before we were all just stories, we lived. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

9 " You and I, we’re going to get tomorrow, and the next night, and a thousand nights after that. For now, it can be enough that I am yours.” He kissed me gently. “All that I am I give to you, and all that I have is yours. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

10 " What do you think happens" I said instead. "When we die?" Jin didn't believe in gods. He didn't believe in heavens or hells or worlds after. Just in this world. Just in now.
Jin traced my face, like he was trying to remember it. "I think they burn us and we become dust and ash." He ran a finger across the edge of my lips. "And I think that the dust that was me will spend until the end of time trying to get as close as possible the the dust that was you out in that vast desert. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

11 " We would be stories long after we were gone. Imperfect, inaccurate stories. Stories that could never even come close to reality "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

12 " 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)

13 " The Rebel Prince will rise again.
He will bring a new dawn. A new desert. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

14 " Her wish was simple: that you should live. - Bahadur, to Amani, about her mother. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

15 " 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. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

16 " And the storyteller began. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

17 " There's no such thing as just a story. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

18 " We were sailing on a sea of sand. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

19 " 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. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)

20 " God above, you’re beautiful,’ he breathed.
‘You don’t believe in God,’ I reminded him, my voice low.
‘Right now, I think I just might. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)