“Tell me that and we’ll go. Right now. Save ourselves and leave this place to burn. Tell me that’s how you want your story to go and we’ll write it straight across the sand.”
―
Alwyn Hamilton,
Rebel of the Sands
“You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“The world makes things for each place. Fish for the sea, Rocs for the mountain skies, and girls with sun in their skin and perfect aim for a desert that doesn't let weakness live.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“I was born the same year as ten brothers and a dozen sisters. Being born doesn’t make a single soul important. But you were important when I met you, that girl who dressed as a boy, who taught herself to shoot true, who dreamed and saved and wanted so badly. That girl was someone who had made herself matter. She was someone I liked. What the hell has happened since you came here that she is so worthless to you? What’s happened that only my brother’s approval and some power you never needed before can make you important? That’s why I didn’t want to bring you into this revolution, Amani. Because I didn’t want to watch the Blue-Eyed Bandit get unmade by a prince without a kingdom.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“She moved like a storm someone had given steel to.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Jin had told me once there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“But if knowledge was power, then the unknown was the greatest weakness of immortal things.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Jin always smiled at me like we were both about to be in big trouble and he loved it. The prince smiled like he was forgiving you for it.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert. [...]But he wondered if a boy from the sea and a girl from the desert could ever survive together. He feared that she might burn him alive or that he might drown her. Until finally he stopped fighting it and set himself on fire for her.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall
“I was a desert girl. I thought I knew heat. I was wrong.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne
“You're right." He cut me off. "I never understood this country. I never understood why he chose to leave everything else behind and stay for this. Not until I met you."I felt like he'd pushed me, like I was falling and I needed him to reel those words back in to keep me standing straight."You /are/ this country, Amani." He spoke more quietly now. "More alive than anything ought to be in this place. All fire and gunpowder, with one finger always on the trigger.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“I don't mean to worry you and all," I said, trying to keep my voice calm, "but have you noticed that you've been shot?""Ah." Looking at him closer now, I could see he was clutching the counter to stay upright. "I'd almost forgotten about that.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Amani." My eyes flew open. Jin was standing in the gates to Fahali. His face cleared as he saw me, and he ran toward me, relief written all over him. "Thank God.""You don't believe in God," I said. It came out half a croak just as he closed the last of the space between us with a kiss.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“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” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“But then, this was what the desert did to us. It made us dreamers with weapons.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne
“But even if the desert forgot a thousand and one of our stories, it was enough that they would tell of us at all. That long after our deaths, men and women sitting around a fire would hear that once, long ago, before we were all just stories, we lived.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall
“It was damn hard to trust a boy with a smile like that. A smile that made me want to follow him straight to the places he’d told me about and made me sure I shouldn’t at the same time.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“The world makes things for each place. Fish for the sea, Rocs for the mountain skies, and girls with sun in their skin and perfect aim for a desert that doesn't let weakness live.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“I was born the same year as ten brothers and a dozen sisters. Being born doesn’t make a single soul important. But you were important when I met you, that girl who dressed as a boy, who taught herself to shoot true, who dreamed and saved and wanted so badly. That girl was someone who had made herself matter. She was someone I liked. What the hell has happened since you came here that she is so worthless to you? What’s happened that only my brother’s approval and some power you never needed before can make you important? That’s why I didn’t want to bring you into this revolution, Amani. Because I didn’t want to watch the Blue-Eyed Bandit get unmade by a prince without a kingdom.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“She moved like a storm someone had given steel to.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Jin had told me once there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“But if knowledge was power, then the unknown was the greatest weakness of immortal things.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Jin always smiled at me like we were both about to be in big trouble and he loved it. The prince smiled like he was forgiving you for it.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert. [...]But he wondered if a boy from the sea and a girl from the desert could ever survive together. He feared that she might burn him alive or that he might drown her. Until finally he stopped fighting it and set himself on fire for her.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall
“I was a desert girl. I thought I knew heat. I was wrong.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne
“You're right." He cut me off. "I never understood this country. I never understood why he chose to leave everything else behind and stay for this. Not until I met you."I felt like he'd pushed me, like I was falling and I needed him to reel those words back in to keep me standing straight."You /are/ this country, Amani." He spoke more quietly now. "More alive than anything ought to be in this place. All fire and gunpowder, with one finger always on the trigger.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“I don't mean to worry you and all," I said, trying to keep my voice calm, "but have you noticed that you've been shot?""Ah." Looking at him closer now, I could see he was clutching the counter to stay upright. "I'd almost forgotten about that.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“Amani." My eyes flew open. Jin was standing in the gates to Fahali. His face cleared as he saw me, and he ran toward me, relief written all over him. "Thank God.""You don't believe in God," I said. It came out half a croak just as he closed the last of the space between us with a kiss.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“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” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
“But then, this was what the desert did to us. It made us dreamers with weapons.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne
“But even if the desert forgot a thousand and one of our stories, it was enough that they would tell of us at all. That long after our deaths, men and women sitting around a fire would hear that once, long ago, before we were all just stories, we lived.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall
“It was damn hard to trust a boy with a smile like that. A smile that made me want to follow him straight to the places he’d told me about and made me sure I shouldn’t at the same time.” ― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
