362 Quotes by Renee Ahdieh

Tonight is a night to turn heads. Make them remember you. Make sure they never forget. You are the Calipha of Khorasan, and you have the ear of a king.” Despina put her hand on Shahrzad’s shoulder and grinned at their shared reflection. “More important, you have his heart.” She bent forward and lowered her voice. “And, most important, you are a fearsome thing to behold in your own right.

The sound of his anguish spiraled up into a desert night, across a vast spread of tiny stars. Through Shahrzad’s very skin. Without a word, Shahrzad took his hand and led him into the desert, far beyond the enclave of tents. When she finally turned to face him, Tariq appeared to have aged a decade in a matter of moments. They stared at each other across a small sea of glittering sand. Across years of friendship and trust, seemingly lost in an instant.

She rose onto her knees. Let her arms spread wide in the wind.

Where there is a setting sun, there is also a rising one. Seventy-two.

One hundred lives for the one you took. One life to one dawn. Should you fail but a single morn, I shall take from you your dreams. I shall take from you your city. And I shall take from you these lives, a thousandfold.

Sharzad was rewarded with one of his uncommonly effortless smiles. The kind that changed a face of shadows into one of light”.

There is no way to know for certain what lurks in the shadowed corners of the mind.

Do better than this, Shazi. My queen is without limitations. Boundless in all that she does. Show them.” Her pulse raced.

What’s done is done. But in the future, do better. She.