“What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered. “If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.” The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest. “No.” His hands dropped to her waist. “Destroy me.”

A true  p l a g u e  of a girl. And yet a  q u e e n  in every sense of the word.

In her ear, he whispered, “Do better than this Shazi. My queen is without limitations. Boundless in all that she does. Show them.”

"a moment suspended in time" - the rose and the dagger

The caliph swiveled to face the shahrban. “You’re right, General. You do not understand. And you may never understand. Regardless, I’d like to introduce you to the Mountain of Adamant...” The caliph glanced back at Shahrzad, a ghost of a smile playing across his lips. “My queen.”

and he smiled a smile to shame the sun.

“Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another sky.”

book quote ➳ the wrath and the dawn by renée ahdieh “I failed you one last thing. Here is my chance to rectify it. It was never because I didn’t feel it. It was because I swore I would never say it, and a man is nothing if he can’t keep his promises. So I write it to the sky - I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.”