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Hero at the Fall

Book by Alwyn Hamilton · 10 quotes · Amani, Love, Jin

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“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert. [...] 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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“She was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger”

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“You're wrong, you know. I'm not with you because of who you became. I fell in love with you when I was bleeding under a counter at the dead end of the desert and you saved my life. Back when we were both who we used to be.”

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“Gentlemen,' he said dramatically as he rose, kicking his chair back out of the way, 'your infidelity leaves me no choice but to fold this hand. But I Will return hen I've had Some luck rub off on me.' He winked widely, pulling me tight against him by the waist. Thumbscrews. The way I murdered him was going to include thumbscrews.”

Sam Amani Thumbscrews

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“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert. The boy knew she was dangerous...she was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger. He guessed he was in trouble when those same fingers danced across the stories inked into his skin without seeming to understand how much power she had in her. Or how much power she could have over him. ... He knew it when she drove him across the desert for fear that losing her would tear him in half. He knew it when he did lose her, and he would have torn the whole world apart looking for her.”

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“What do you think happens?" I said instead. "When we die?" Jin didn't believe in gods. He didn't believe in heavens or hells or worlds after. Just in this world. Just in now. ... "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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“I could barely breathe through the agony, but I heard Rahim call out, "Is everyone still alive?" ... "Yeah, call out if you're dead," Sam added. And Shazad laughed. Then I was laughing, too. And I couldn't stop. Because it was ridiculous and impossible, what we had just done. But I had managed it. And we were all still alive.”

Amani Shazad The Sam Sort Of Humor

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“How did you find me?" "Sam sold you out," "Should I be flattered he tore his eyes off Shazad long enough to notice anyone else?”

Amani Shazad The Sam Sort Of Humor

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“All that I am I give to you, All that I have is yours, Until the day we die.”

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“Because the day that we die, it's not going to be tomorrow." He said it with the certainty of a Demdji truth-telling even though he was entirely human.”

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