Top 120 Alwyn Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The trouble with belief is that it’s not the same as truth.”

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2. “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.”

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3. “I promised them that if they got my son out, I would show this city how a desert girl dies. – Shira.”

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4. “And just like that, everyone was looking at me. If I’d known I was doomed to get this much attention, I might’ve brushed my hair.”

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5. “Besides, if I let everyone I found annoying die, we’d be mighty thin on allies.”

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6. “I was a desert girl. I thought I knew heat. I was wrong.”

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7. “They both die tragically at the end. That’s what happens in all great love stories.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “For you I would flood the desert. For my sister... I would set the sea on fire.”

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

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11. “The freedom of gliding through the world, forgetting for a moment where you had come from and not worrying about where you were going. Being, just for a moment, nowhere at all.”

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12. “I wouldn’t point fingers if I were you. You know what they say: those who point fingers wind up with them broken so badly they point straight back at them. – Shazad.”

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13. “And so here i was, my hands tied so tight behind my back i was losing feeling in them and a fresh wound on my collarbone where a knife had just barely missed my neck. Funny how being successful felt exactly the same as getting captured.”

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14. “She moved like a storm someone had given steel to.”

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15. “He dared to fight because his destiny was to die.”

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16. “Until there was a girl. A girl called the Blue-Eyed Bandit, who had been made in the sands and sharpened by the desert and who burned with all of its fire. And for the first time the Foreign Prince understood what it was that his brother loved in this desert.”

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

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18. “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.”

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19. “You’re wrong, you know. I’m not with you because of who you became. I fell in love with you when I was bleeding under a counter at the dead end of the desert and you saved my life. Back when we were both who we used to be.”

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20. “But if knowledge was power, then the unknown was the greatest weakness of immortal things.”

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21. “She was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger.”

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22. “I had a few things to say about being dragged to a so-called Free City tied up like a goat on a spit, but even I knew I was better off not running my mouth just now.”

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

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24. “I shouldn’t trust him. He was a soldier. But he was a prisoner, too. And that ought to mean we were on the same side. Or at least we had the same enemy.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “You can go to civilisation or go to hell, for all I care.′ And it felt like the sand was stretching around my feet until that was all there was in the world, until Izman crept further and further away. ‘I’m not leaving him for dead.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “Ahmed would tell me that an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. Shazad would tell me that was why you had to stab people through both eyes the first time around.”

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30. “That was what we did. Survive one fight to get to the next. Over and over again until you didn’t survive. And all that you could hope for when dying was that some people wouldn’t have to see another fight. That eventually, somewhere, this country would find peace.”

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31. “There’s no such thing as just a story.”

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32. “So are you planning on stealing all our guns, or do you think maybe you only need one per hand? – Ahmed.”

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33. “She moved like a storm someone had given steel to... ‘You must be the one who said the password,’ she said. – Shazad.”

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34. “I had a plan. Well, plan might be a strong word. Shazad was the plan maker between the two of us. This was more like the beginnings of an idea that I was hoping wouldn’t get me killed. Which was more my style.”

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

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36. “You almost died,” Mahdi said again, like we might be too stupid to understand. “You say that like it’s the first time I’ve ever had a gun pointed at me,” I retorted as Shazad rolled her eyes. “It’s not even the first time this month.”

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37. “We contained our own stories. A thousand tiny parts of the story would die with us.”

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38. “Stories were written by the winners.”

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39. “They didn’t belong in our desert. They didn’t belong in my bloodline, either. I was a desert girl. I hated that half of me came from these foreigners.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.”

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42. “It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who’d known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.”

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43. “I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I’d feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.”

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44. “Legends were never what you expected when you saw them up close.”

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45. “I did this to stay alive. Because you are a vicious, stupid, impotent man. – Shira, to Kadir.”

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46. “We would be stories long after we were gone. Imperfect, inaccurate stories. Stories that could never even come close to reality.”

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47. “It was damn hard to trust a boy with a smile like that.”

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48. “Jin had told me once there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic.”

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49. “I thought of Shazad. My sister in arms. We had recognised something in each other the first time we met and we were tied. By more than blood.”

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50. “These ideas could make men shout for rebellion even when it meant they would hang for it.”

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