Traitor to the Throne Quotes

“I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“But then, this was what the desert did to us. It made us dreamers with weapons.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“The trouble with belief is that it's not the same as truth.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“My mother had raised me on a thousand stories of girls who were saved by the Djinn, princesses rescued from towers, peasant girls rescued from poverty.
Turned out, stories were just stories.
I was on my own.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I swear to God, if he's hurt you, Amani, I will make him suffer for it."
"You don't believe in God."
"Then I swear to you.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I promised them that if they got my son out, I would show this city how a desert girl dies. - Shira”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Is there a reason you keep coming back injured when I leave you for five seconds, or is it---" His voice carried too loud, and I clapped a hand over his mouth, shutting him up.
"Don't flatter yourself," I said quietly. "I'm always getting injured when you're around, too.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“For you I would flood the desert. For my sister... I would set the sea on fire”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Besides, if I let everyone I found annoying die, we'd be mighty thin on allies.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I had just interrupted one of the Sultan's councils to decide the outcome of the ceasefire and the fate of our whole country, with a dead duck.
I wondered if this was what would cost me my head.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Stories were written by the winners.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“for only those whose days were numbered counted them.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“He held out a foreign-looking sword to Shazad. "Are you as good as Amani says you are?"
"No, I'm even better." Shazad grabbed the blade out of his hand.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I did this to stay alive. Because you are a vicious, stupid, impotent man. - Shira, to Kadir”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“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.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me."
"You tried to stab me first," I objected without thinking.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne