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“So we literally made the earth move? A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don’t engage in sex in populated areas.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“You’ll have to be my conscience.�� He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Sahara dug her fingers into his arms. “You do not do this,�� she said, and it was an order. “You do not let that monster destroy the life we are going to have together. You are mine, not his. You have always been mine.��

The claiming was so absolute, it dared him to fight. Kaleb had no intention of doing so. Shuddering, he crushed her to him. “Yes,�� he said, battling the rage because if he gave in to it, he would lose Sahara. “I’m yours. I will always be yours.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Her voice trembled. “I’m so glad you’re mine. I won’t ever let you go.��

This time, it was Kaleb who said, “I know,�� devastated at being so wanted. “You are just a little possessive.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“If you don’t need my backsight,�� she said to Kaleb, “then why am I here?��

He rose to his feet and, placing his hands on the table, leaned toward her until she could’ve reached out and run her fingers along his freshly shaven jaw. “You are here,�� he said in a tone that made her heart thump wildly against her ribs, “because you belong to me.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Sahara knew she should be worried about the fact that she’d been in bed with a man who’d caused that kind of damage with a momentary and, according to him, minor loss of telekinetic control during intimacy, but she felt her lips kick up at the corners. So we literally made the earth move?

A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don’t engage in sex in populated areas.

The cool comment made her burst into laughter.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“All right." Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. "But will you replace it with something for me?"

"Anything." His body was hers.

Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, "You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too." A tender kiss pressed to the scar. "I want us to fly together.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“I love you. I will always love you.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies and minds. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. I quietly thank this ancestor of mine for surviving the trip so that I could one day return.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?��”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".”
― Eamonn Gearon, The Sahara: A Cultural History

“Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender her to Mr. Rawlinson; he himself would not fall into his father's arms and would not hear from his lips that he had acted like a true Pole! The end, the end! In a few days the sun would shine only upon the lifeless bodies and afterwards would dry them up into a semblance of those mummies which slumber in an eternal sleep in the museums in Egypt”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness

“It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.”
― T.K. Naliaka, A Difficult Damsel to Rescue

“POEM FOR SOUKAÏNA��
****
To tell of my new Moroccan Love,
Ô, I court her everyday.
But just as a pearl in the mud is a pearl,
So is my Love just an Arab girl��
in that I offer her constant, loving woos,
but she’ll ask me in return that I give her flooze*.
That’s when I kiss her and shrug, and I say, “Someday.��
And she gives me her love free anyway.
* * *
Ô, my Love is a child of the souks.
In Casablanca born.
A gypsy thief, “Soukaïna�� named.
We met in the souks of Marrakech,
It was here my heart she tamed.
Ô, she came at nineteen to Marrakech,
In search of wild fun.
And she lived in Marrakech seven years,
Before my heart she won.”
― Roman Payne

“He’s not the kind of man you want to be involved with.�� Sahara made a face at him. “That would be my business.�� “Sorry, doesn’t work like that.�� Folding his arms, he leaned back against the wall, eyes fully jaguar. “You’re family now, little sister.�� “And look how safe you are,�� she said, hands on her hips. “I’m sorry, anyone who turns into a predatory cat with big teeth and claws can’t exactly throw stones.�� Vaughn narrowed his eyes at her. “I will hurt him if he puts a single bruise on you.�� “You won’t have to,�� Sahara said softly. “He’d end himself before causing me harm.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“They glided out of the heat-haze on their camels like specters. There were twenty of them, and they were Tuareg. Their faces were hidden by black veils that left only slits for the eyes, and they wore purple robes that fluttered in the desert wind. They carried swords, muskets and seven-foot iron spears, and wore stilettos in sheaths on their left forearms. They were an impressive, sinister sight.”
― Michael Asher, Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre

“Are you going to be serious?" She scowled.

"No. I'd rather cause an earthquake.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Bouteflika: Your position was one of principle, it was very clear. Your press—Newsweek, the New York Times—were very objective on the problem. And we find that the U.S. could have stopped the Green March. The U.S. could have stopped it, or favored it.

Kissinger: That’s not true.

Bouteflika: We think on the contrary that France played a crude role. There was no delicacy, no subtlety. Bourguiba, Senghor—they tried to use what influence remained for France. Bongo. No finesse, no research.
I don’t know if this corresponds to your situation. But there are sentiments, and we were very affected because we thought it was an anti-Algerian position.

Kissinger: We don’t have an anti-Algerian position. The only question was how much to invest. To prevent the Green March would have meant hurting our relations completely with Morocco, in effect an embargo.

Bouteflika: You could have done it. You could stop economic aid and military aid.

Kissinger: But that would have meant ruining our relations with Morocco completely.

Bouteflika: No. The King of Morocco would not have gone to the Soviets.

Kissinger: But we don’t have that much interest in the Sahara.

Bouteflika: But you have interests in Spain, and in Morocco.

Kissinger: And in Algeria.

Bouteflika: And you favored one.

[FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1969-1976, VOLUME E-9, PART 1, DOCUMENTS ON NORTH AFRICA, 1973-1976
110. Memorandum of Conversation - Paris, December 17, 1975, 8:05��9:25 a.m.]”
― Henry Kissinger

“Art. 4. - Dans le Sahara (désert), il n'y a pas de limite territoriale à établir entre les deux pays, puisque la terre ne se laboure pas et qu'elle sert seulement de pacage aux Arabes des deux Empires qui viennent y camper pour y trouver les pâturages et les eaux qui leur sont nécessaires. Les deux souverains exerceront de la manière qu'ils l'entendront toute la plénitude de leurs droits sur leurs sujets respectifs dans le Sahara. Et, toutefois, si l'un des deux souverains avait à procéder contre ses sujets, au moment où ces derniers seraient mêlés avec ceux de l'autre Etat, il procédera comme il l'entendra sur les siens, mais il s'abstiendra envers les sujets de l'autre gouvernement.

Ceux des Arabes qui dépendent de l'Empire du Maroc, sont : les M'béïa, les Beni Guil, les Hamian-Djenba, les Eumour-Sahara et les Ouled-Sidi-Cheikh-el-Gharaba.

Ceux des Arabes qui dépendent de l'Algérie sont : les Ouled-Sidi-el-Cheikh-el Cheraga, et tous les Hamian, excepté les Hamian-Djenba-susnommés.

[Traité de Lalla-Maghnia - 18 mars 1845]”
― Alexandre Jehan Henry de Clercq, Recueil des traités de la France

“Het zand in de Sahara zou ik niet warm mogen noemen.”
― Petra Hermans