Alwyn Quotes

If she couldn't carve out a place for herself in Izman, what hope was I going to have? — Alwyn Hamilton

What else was I meant to do? Leave you to die?"
"You might've."
"I wouldn't have. — Alwyn Hamilton

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

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

So are you planning on stealing all our guns, or do you think maybe you only need one per hand? - Ahmed — Alwyn Hamilton

I promised them that if they got my son out, I would show this city how a desert girl dies. - Shira — Alwyn Hamilton

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner. — Alwyn Hamilton

Taking Mum's hand, I whispered Are we really safe, here? — Alwyn Evans

If you're not consistently carrying out your plan ninety percent of the time, you really don't have a plan at all. — Alwyn Cosgrove

So that's what Ayet wanted scissors for. - Shira — Alwyn Hamilton

Arms around my waist caught me before I could hit the ground. "I've got you," Jin said in my ear. "Let go; I've got you. — Alwyn Hamilton

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

The night was screams, and the smell of gunpodwer, and my gun snapping shut with a fresh round in the chamber. — Alwyn Hamilton

I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck. — Alwyn Hamilton

Nobody had seen a Djinni in decades. Now all it took to burn down a den of sin was a girl, a foreigner and a whole mess of drunks. — Alwyn Hamilton

tomorrow the sun would rise on the first day of a new desert. — Alwyn Hamilton

I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it. — Alwyn Hamilton

It was damn hard to trust a boy with a smile like that. — Alwyn Hamilton

You always want something. - Bahadur — Alwyn Hamilton

I don't mean to worry you and all... but have you noticed you've been shot?'
'Ah... I'd almost forgotten about that. — Alwyn Hamilton

I did this to stay alive. Because you are a vicious, stupid, impotent man. - Shira, to Kadir — Alwyn Hamilton

Jin had told me once there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic. — Alwyn Hamilton

Hundreds of prayer cloths were tied around rocks and stakes all the way up the mountain, but God had failed here. — Alwyn Hamilton

These ideas could make men shout for rebellion even when it meant they would hang for it. — Alwyn Hamilton

For a second it looked like a mortal horse. The next it was pure sand. Shifting from bright gold to violent red, fire and sun in a windswept desert. — Alwyn Hamilton

But if knowledge was power, then the unknown was the greatest weakness of immortal things. — Alwyn Hamilton

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

She moved like a storm someone had given steel to. — Alwyn Hamilton

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

I was a desert girl. I thought I knew heat. I was wrong. — Alwyn Hamilton