Top 120 Alwyn Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “I’d once asked Jin if the sand sea was like the real sea. He’d given me that knowing smile he used to use when he knew something I didn’t. Before I stripped all his secrets away and that smile became mine.”

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53. “This felt like the first time all over again, when he’d pinned me up against the side of a train carriage that shook around us like it might fall apart at any second, as we clung to the only other thing in the world that seemed sturdy, both of us on that train rushing ahead into something we didn’t wholly understand. When everything in me had seemed to come alive under his hands. When he turned me from a spark into a fire, and I didn’t know how anyone could have enough power to do that to me.”

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54. “He said i was a lot less likely to make the same mistake a second time than someone else was to make it the first.”

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55. “I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.”

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56. “I’d near forgotten what it felt like to be a girl in Miraji. I was inconspicuous, but not the same way I’d been as a boy. Not because I was the same as everyone else. Because I didn’t matter. Nobody in Miraji had ever thought enough of a girl to imagine I might be a spy.”

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57. “If folk think they know what you are up to, they don’t dig much deeper and risk finding the truth.”

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58. “The night was screams, and the smell of gunpodwer, and my gun snapping shut with a fresh round in the chamber.”

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59. “I didn’t make you come here.” Jin’s eyes bored into mine, but I wasn’t backing down. He said I had traitor eyes. Let him see the betrayal there. Let him drown in it. “I didn’t trick you and I didn’t ask you to.”

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60. “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.”

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61. “The tales would be imperfect; the legends would be incomplete. And each and every one of us standing in the garden that night would take an entire universe of stories with us when we died, the accounts of every small moment that did not seem grand enough to storytellers, which would disappear in smoke when our bodies were burned.”

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62. “Seemed like the only way into the city these days was by being dragged through the gates as a prisoner with a hand around your neck. Lucky me.”

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63. “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.”

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64. “But there, standing at the entrance to the garden, wearing a khalat the colour of a breaking dawn and that faint smile that meant she knew she was outsmarting someone, was Shazad.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “Her wish was simple: that you should live. – Bahadur, to Amani, about her mother.”

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67. “Family and blood aren’t the same thing.”

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68. “But the storytellers would never know that. Even if people had known the truth, they wouldn’t have been interested in telling it. Flowers pouring from Windows like falling stars made a better tale.”

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69. “Stories and belief meant more than the truth.”

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70. “She had done it. Delila had saved us. And she’d done it without a single weapon. I’d forgotten how powerful a story could be.”

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71. “You always want something. – Bahadur.”

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72. “Hundreds of prayer cloths were tied around rocks and stakes all the way up the mountain, but God had failed here.”

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73. “So that’s what Ayet wanted scissors for. – Shira.”

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74. “If she couldn’t carve out a place for herself in Izman, what hope was I going to have?”

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75. “What would I possibly know – I’ve only been stationed in the mountains of Iliaz for half a decade. I only heard Rocs screaming every night while you were still sleeping in the harem by your mother. But you know better, I’m sure.”

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76. “I thought I had to do without you if you were so determined to leave the world. But then you were gone and I would have torn the desert apart looking for you.”

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77. “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.”

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78. “Drop the gun, Bandit.” Malik sneered. “There’s only one man who gets to call me that,” I said. “And you’re not near as good-looking as him.”

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79. “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.”

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80. “I hadn’t thought Jin shared anything with this brother, but the aversion to shirts seemed to be a family trait.”

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81. “A story written in far-off places I didn’t know how to dream about yet.”

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82. “And suddenly, the once-nameless boy knew he didn’t want a stolen name, tarnished with use. What he wanted desperately was a name good enough to give to this girl.”

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83. “He must’ve heard we were on our way. But I had the feeling iT wasn’t the News of our numbers or our weapons that made him flee. It was the news that the rebel prince had returned from the dead. We didn’t even have to fight with the tale of Ahmed preceding us. That was the power of a legend.”

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84. “I wasn’t up to no good. Then again, I wasn’t exactly up to no bad neither.”

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85. “Ahmed looked shocked, his hands digging into my arms. ‘But you love him,’ he said softly. ‘You love him, and you should save him. That’ what people do with those they love, Amani – they save them.′ No iT wasn’t. Sam had taught me that. Great love stories ended in death. All stories ended in death sooner or later. Ours was ending sooner.”

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86. “In the stories, it was always the monster who lost. But I knew better than anyone that stories and truth weren’t the same thing.”

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87. “God, I knew I was in trouble even then. I was running for my life, bleeding on your floor, and all I could think about was kissing you and damn if we got caught.”

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88. “We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.”

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89. “There was no fighting a sandstorm with pistols.”

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90. “The First Beings might be all-powerful, but they had made us for the one thing that they could not do: to lay down our lives for what we believed in.”

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91. “I’m not good at losing people, Amani, and you know I don’t give a damn about this country.” The rest of him was still now, something solid to hang on to. But his fingers were sliding into my hair, making me shiver. “I give a damn about you and you are this place. I thought I had to do without you if you were so determined to leave the world. But then you were gone and I would have torn the desert apart looking for you.”

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92. “We were sailing on a sea of sand.”

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93. “I called the desert into a storm.”

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94. “You and I, we’re going to get tomorrow, and the next night, and a thousand nights after that. For now, it can be enough that I am yours.” He kissed me gently. “All that I am I give to you, and all that I have is yours.”

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95. “The guns weren’t of Mirajin make. Amonpourian. Stupid-looking things. Ornate and carved, made by hand instead of machine, and charged at twice what they were worth because someone had gone to the trouble of making them pretty. It didn’t matter how pretty something was, it’d kill you just as dead. That, I’d learned from Shazad.”

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96. “The stories of Izman had belonged to my mother. But the world was a lot bigger than my mother ever told me. And it occurred to me once or twice that I could go anywhere in it.”

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97. “All that I am I give to you, and all that I have is yours. Because the day that we die, it’s not going to be tomorrow.”

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98. “She turned to Jin now, sprawled by the fire, his hat pulled over his eyes. “I can tell you’re awake. Are you coming with us?” He sighed, tipping his hat backward. “Yeah, yeah. Just trying to get some sleep before going to near certain death.”

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99. “I think they burn us and we become dust and ash.” He ran a finger across the edge of my lips. “And I think that the dust that was me will spend until the end of time trying to get as close as possible to the dust that was you out in that vast desert.”

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100. “All that I am I give to you, and all that I have is yours.”

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