136 Quotes by Alwyn Hamilton

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.

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

The trouble with belief is that it's not the same as truth.

But the storytellers would never know that. Even if people had known the truth, they wouldn't have been interested in telling it. Flowers pouring from Windows like falling stars made a better tale.

Stories were written by the winners.

I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.

If folk think they know what you are up to, they don't dig much deeper and risk finding the truth.

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.

The ceasefire had started. Next would come the negotations. Then the peace between the sultan and the invaders. And without the need to mind his shores, the desert ruler's eyes would turn inward again. The Foreign prince understood it was time to return to his brother. Their rebellion was about to turn into a war.