23 Quotes by Noor Al-Shanti

A small, decorative dagger was embedded in her stomach. She was doomed. Even still, Hawk could not leave her.

And because he could do nothing about it, Tern’s anger suffocated him. It made more tears.

The King in the Palace had the power to play with people’s lives and destroy them, but he did not even know what was happening in the ranks of his own soldiers, in the halls of his own home.

he did not seem to have any actual training with a weapon, but there was something frightening about the way he fought. Something wild and uncontrolled seemed to have possessed him.

He clutched at his chest, trying to find the pendant that hung there, to hold onto the reality of it, the reality of his age and the time in which he was living, but the shadows surrounded him on all sides and the fear grew in his heart and he was only a frightened little boy.

If you take a man’s choices away from him, you cannot blame him for the outcome.

They were almost demon-like, with metallic rings around their throats that gleamed in the moonlight and more weapons than a normal human should be able to carry.

The tears fell like rivers down Tern’s cheeks. He did not want to cry. He wanted to be strong like Raven, like Hawk, but they fell all the same. He tried to hold them back, but that only made it difficult to breathe.

he looked more like a gust of wind or a whirl of smoke than a boy.