136 Quotes by Alwyn Hamilton

And then came that grin. I may have traitor eyes, but Jin had the sort of smile that would turn over whole empires to the enemy-that made me feel like I suddenly understood him exactly, even though I knew nothing about him. The kind that made me feel like if I was on the right side of it, we could do anything together.

So are you planning on stealing all our guns, or do you think maybe you only need one per hand? – Ahmed.

Ahmed would tell me that an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. Shazad would tell me that was why you had to stab people through both eyes the first time around.

Legends were never what you expected when you saw them up close.

And suddenly, the once-nameless boy knew he didn’t want a stolen name, tarnished with use. What he wanted desperately was a name good enough to give to this girl.

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.

The First Beings might be all-powerful, but they had made us for the one thing that they could not do: to lay down our lives for what we believed in.

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.

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.