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“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

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“She was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I'm not good at losing people, Amani, and you know I don't give a damn about this country." The rest of him was still now, something solid to hang on to. But his fingers were sliding into my hair, making me shiver. "I give a damn about you and you are this place. I thought I had to do without you if you were so determined to leave the world. But then you were gone and I would have torn the desert apart looking for you.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Is there a reason you keep coming back injured when I leave you for five seconds, or is it---" His voice carried too loud, and I clapped a hand over his mouth, shutting him up.
"Don't flatter yourself," I said quietly. "I'm always getting injured when you're around, too.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“My knuckles skimmed over the edges of the sun tattooed over his heart. That was the last thing I noticed before I kissed him.

His jaw tensed in surprise for a moment; his hand gripped my arm hard enough to hurt. And then his body was flush against mine, pushing me back against the wall of the train.

I was a desert girl. I thought I knew heat.

I was wrong”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“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

“Besides, if I let everyone I found annoying die, we'd be mighty thin on allies.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“And just like that, everyone was looking at me. If I'd known I was doomed to get this much attention, I might've brushed my hair.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“You almost died," Mahdi said again, like we might be too stupid to understand. "You say that like it's the first time I've ever had a gun pointed at me," I retorted as Shazad rolled her eyes. "It's not even the first time this month.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I called the desert into a storm.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me."
"You tried to stab me first," I objected without thinking.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I'd once asked Jin if the sand sea was like the real sea. He'd given me that knowing smile he used to use when he knew something I didn't. Before I stripped all his secrets away and that smile became mine.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I had a plan. Well, plan might be a strong word. Shazad was the plan maker between the two of us. This was more like the beginnings of an idea that I was hoping wouldn't get me killed. Which was more my style.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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

“Seemed like the only way into the city these days was by being dragged through the gates as a prisoner with a hand around your neck. Lucky me.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“The guns weren't of Mirajin make. Amonpourian. Stupid-looking things. Ornate and carved, made by hand instead of machine, and charged at twice what they were worth because someone had gone to the trouble of making them pretty. It didn't matter how pretty something was, it'd kill you just as dead. That, I'd learned from Shazad.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert. The boy knew she was dangerous...she was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger. He guessed he was in trouble when those same fingers danced across the stories inked into his skin without seeming to understand how much power she had in her. Or how much power she could have over him.
...

He knew it when she drove him across the desert for fear that losing her would tear him in half. He knew it when he did lose her, and he would have torn the whole world apart looking for her.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“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.
...

"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 to the dust that was you out in that vast desert."
...”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“Amani ya moyo ndicho kipimo cha mafanikio yetu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Nabii wa kweli lazima awe na upendo, furaha, amani, uvumilivu, utu wema, fadhili, uaminifu, upole, na kiasi. Kuonyesha usungura wa manabii wa injili ya woga ni jukumu la kila Mkristo wa kweli, kuokoa roho za watu wengi kwa kadiri tutakavyoweza.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Ukitaka amani jirekebishe wewe mwenyewe kwanza ndani yako, badilika kitabia, ili uwe na uwezo wa kuwapenda wengine kama unavyojipenda.”
― Enock Maregesi

“So we sent a few folk to find out more. And do something about it if we didn't like it. They didn't come back. That was a problem. Another problem was getting in after them.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I could barely breathe through the agony, but I heard Rahim call out, "Is everyone still alive?"
...

"Yeah, call out if you're dead," Sam added. And Shazad laughed. Then I was laughing, too. And I couldn't stop. Because it was ridiculous and impossible, what we had just done. But I had managed it. And we were all still alive.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“How did you find me?"

"Sam sold you out,"

"Should I be flattered he tore his eyes off Shazad long enough to notice anyone else?”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“All that I am I give to you,

All that I have is yours,

Until the day we die.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“Because the day that we die, it's not going to be tomorrow." He said it with the certainty of a Demdji truth-telling even though he was entirely human.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall