Ella Riddle

“Here's a tip for you." He was close to me now, close as he had been when he kissed me, or I kissed him. "Don't try to hit a man in the face when he's looking straight into your eyes. You've got traitor eyes, Bandit."

I drove my other fist into his gut hard enough that my knuckles popped. Jin doubled over, coughing. "Thank for the tip." I wished victory didn't feel so much like I'd sprained my hand.

"Any time." He clutched his stomach where I'd hit him, but it looked like he was laughing.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“Like the earth had rebelled from within it's very soul and closed the mountain's ancient mouth”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“But the world was a lot bigger than my mother ever told me. And it occurred to me once or twice that I could go anywhere in it.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“After weeks of my being a boy around him, everything that made me a girl was in his hands”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands