Twelve Kings in Sharakhai Quotes

“She could smell it now as well, a scent like red wine, like powdered amber, subtle yet deeply powerful, as if these twisted trees somehow fed upon the stories of man throughout all the pages of time.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“The best stories thrived when they contained a kernel of truth. One just needed to know how to prune the falsities and deceits to find the truth lying at their shared center.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“When we come in peace, you may read our tales, but when we come for war, we reveal nothing, for our palms will grip our blades.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“None so blind as a wrathful man, Çeda thought.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“…she found herself wishing she could return to those days, to choose a different life. But that wasn‘t how it worked. Life chose YOU; it was how you dealt with it that mattered.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“Kings will never leave this place. The gods themselves granted them the city, and control of the desert with it.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“It felt used. Lived in. Kissed by battle. Exactly the way she liked it.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“Do you have brothers and sisters?” Çeda said. “I had two sisters, but both died when I was young. I have dozens of half-brothers and half-sisters, though. The Kings rarely stay with one woman—or man, for that matter—for long.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

“Once it was done, though, the door swung open quiet as a blade slipping from its scabbard.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai