“Oh heaven and hell, stop with the tears. Given the day Sarah had just had, the tears were logical. But watching her face crumple, hearing the gut-deep harsh sobs, filled Rukh with an irrational need to pull her into his arms, wrap her in a hug.
As soon as the urge had gelled into conscious thought, his essence hardened into visibility and his arms slid up around her shivering, wet body.
Sarah’s eyes popped open and she staggered back with a yell.
His arms tightened around her, steadying her, keeping her close. Well, shit. At least, she’d stopped
crying.
Fear-bright green eyes stared at him instead.
Given he was an assassin, sent to kill her, her response was natural, even intelligent. Yet, bitterness churned in his gut at the thought of her fearing him.
“It’s okay,” he whispered. “You’re safe.”
“Am I hallucinating?” Her question came out as a croak.
“Yes, yes you are.” That seemed a much better answer than the truth.
She pinned him with her dark, direct gaze. “You’re just a figment of my imagination. A fantasy?”
“Yes.” He didn’t dare move.
“Then why are you still wearing clothes?”
“There's no such thing as a day full of nothing.”
Source: 宇宙よりも遠い場所 3 [Sora yori mo Tooi Basho 3]
“The power I exert, I do so because I am wise, and clever, and know something of the turning of the world.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“Gurung smiled. "I know just where to find many people needing decapitation. But first, a nap.”
Source: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
“The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save.”
Source: A Master of Djinn
“Then he saw it. The feet of every man in the congregation were turned backwards at the ankles.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“Peoples desires were easy to read, clear as bottled glass and just as sturdy.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“Mena wondered if her grandmother, the djinn, had ever thought of reshaping the world so it was more amenable to her. A world of hot wind and bursting stars, where women walked strong and brown and proud over land that sang to their bones, where the fires that burned in their veins were lights in the firmament and not threats to be smothered into nothingness at all costs.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“You have embraced silence. Your wings make no sound. Language is for prey, for what the wizard-nation hunts. You are not prey, not anymore.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“He told me my whole life happened because I got things other people weren't using, and since he's been gone I've lived my whole life on that same principle. He told me a lot of things, and the most important of those things is never, ever to use the word wish.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories