Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
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"I love you, she said. Khalid lifted his head to hers. She placed a hand against his cheek. Beyond words."
"Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.Khalid."
"Love is—a shade of what I feel."
"Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power."
"There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you."
"There's nothing you can do about the past." "You're wrong. I can learn from it..." Tariq dug his heels into his stallion's flanks, and the horse shot forward, painting a dark smudge across the sand. "And I can make sure it never happens again!"
"The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most."
"In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught."
"For his children, he would move mountains."
"When will you tell him?' 'When I muster the courage or when I'm left with no choice - whichever comes first."
"The tears and the pain all but blinding her, she forced open her eyes one more time, to a curtain of dark hair; to a waterfall of black ink spilling across the last page of her life. No. I’m not nothing. I was loved."
"Before she could stop her hands, they reached for him, as though they existed for no other reason than to touch him. Her fingers brushed across his jaw with a feather's caress before pulling away, and he closed his eyes on a soft inhale. Like the poison toying with its remedy, Shahrzad's hands ignored her and took control, a mere taste of his skin not nearly enough. Never enough."
"I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else’s hands. But, if you don’t, how will you ever truly know a person?"
"Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight"
"This dangerous girl. This captivating beauty.This destroyer of worlds and creator of wonder."
"For the wonder of a first love can never be matched."
"When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn't over yet. Our story may have come to a close, but your story is still yet to be told. Make it a story worthy of you"
"What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered.“If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.”“No. Destroy Me."
"Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent."
"It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate."
"In your honesty, I saw a reflection of myself. Or rather, of the man I longed to be. So I failed you. I didn’t stay away. Then, later, I thought if I had answers, it would be enough. I would no longer care. You would no longer matter. So I continued failing you. Continued wanting more. And now I can’t find the words to say what must be said. To convey to you the least of what I owe. When I think of you, I can’t find the air to b r e a t h e."
"I suspect she will be like air. Like knowing how to breathe."
"For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?"