136 Quotes by Alwyn Hamilton

She moved like a storm someone had given steel to.

We were sailing on a sea of sand.

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.

Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert.

But then, this was what the desert did to us. It made us dreamers with weapons.

I believe money and guns get you a lot further in a war than magic these days.

I’d near forgotten what it felt like to be a girl in Miraji. I was inconspicuous, but not the same way I’d been as a boy. Not because I was the same as everyone else. Because I didn’t matter. Nobody in Miraji had ever thought enough of a girl to imagine I might be a spy.

I’m so sorry, Noorsham,” I said. And then I punched him in the face.

Ahmed looked shocked, his hands digging into my arms. ‘But you love him,’ he said softly. ‘You love him, and you should save him. That’ what people do with those they love, Amani – they save them.′ No iT wasn’t. Sam had taught me that. Great love stories ended in death. All stories ended in death sooner or later. Ours was ending sooner.