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“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

“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

“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

“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.
Jin traced my face, like he was trying to remember it. "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 the the dust that was you out in that vast desert.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall