The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

by Shannon Chakraborty

“Happy sixteen-year-olds are rarer than just kings.”

Men find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman.

Those of us who make the sea our home carry libraries in our head, a fact I have tried to impress upon many a land-dwelling intellectual.

First you must understand that there are a great many tales. Stories do that, don’t they, branching out like a sapling searching for sunlight? By the time centuries have passed and that sapling is a mighty tree, there are more branches than can be counted, sprawling in widely different directions.

if God had not meant for such diversity, he would have made us all alike.