68 Quotes by S.A. Chakraborty

So you’re telling me I should hide my kebabs? – Nahri.

Eat you?” He made a disgusted sound. “The smell of your blood alone is enough to put me off eating for a month.

He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation, like a man clinging to a ledge. “We run.

Judging from the screams of the mob, Nahri suspected animating winged lions that breathed flames was not a regular occurrence to the djinn world.

Because I am shafit. That I can wield my magic better than a pureblood, that the sheikh here could spin intellectual circles around the scholars of the Royal Library – that is proof that we’re not so different from the rest o f you.” He glared at Ali. “It’s not a thin I mean to hide.

I am who I am because of that human world. It wasn’t the Banu Nahida who’d driven the peris to their knees, it was the con artist of Cairo, and Nahri wouldn’t cast her away.

You bet on whether or not I kissed your wife?” Ali was aghast. “What is wrong with the two of you?” When his brother and sister only cackled harder, he drew up. “I hate you. “I hate you both.

I can count my short reign a success if I manage to convince the two most stubborn people in Daevabad to do something they don’t want to do.

It looked like the type of place people came to be forgotten.