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“There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.”
“But Aladdin says nothing.Instead, he lowers his face and softly kisses the side of my neck, his mouth trailing up to the skin behind my ear. Goose bumps break across my skin, and I turn my face to ...”
“Zahra, what happens to you when I make my last wish?When your third wish is granted, you will cease to be my master. You may possess the lamp, but you cannot call me. I will return to it and await ...”
“Whore! he snarls, slamming me into the wall so hard stars burst in my eyes. I hiss at him, the tiger in me threatening to emerge and rip out his throat, but a shout brings me back to myself.Zahra!I...”
“For a moment we are weightless, eyes open and locked underwater, flowers drawn down with us, swirling around us in a current of white bubbles. My hair floats around us both like black silk. His han...”
“WHERE IS MY SON?" Uncle Antonio bellows, levelling the two AK-47s he's holding at the lot of us. "Get away from him, you bastards!”
“That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the leaves, you... how did he say it? Oh yes. That you wash the darkness from the world.”
“Have I told you I love you?" he whispers.I smile. "Not since this morning.""Unforgivable. I will tell you every hour of every day.”
“Why do you care what happens to her? I thought we humans were vapors to you, here today and gone tomorrow.Caspida is . . . different. She reminds me of someone, someone Id give my life for if I cou...”
“It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything ...”
“What? You don't think I'm perfect?" I can't resist, because he gets so riled whenever I bring it up. "I can run up to thirty miles without stopping. I can jump six feet in the air. There is not a m...”
“A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you.”
“I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.”
“Love is nothing more than elevated levels of dopamine, nor-epinephrine, and other chemicals. But the way Uncle Antionio's face lights up as they dance... I wonder what it would be like to feel that...”
“He makes a face and tosses the flower at me. It lands on my cheek, and I pick it up and twirl it between my fingers. I could lie out here all day, not moving an inch, feeling the sun above and the ...”
“For five hundred years my sisterhood has passed down a sacred vow, says Caspida coldly, to destroy the one who destroyed our queen. You know this, and you speak these words only to deceive me as yo...”
“I feel shock splinter through him, his body going rigid. Then he relaxes, melting into me, stepping forward until I am caught between him and the wall, the torch crackling beside me. His hands slid...”
“A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.”
“Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.”
“Dont you understand? Its forbidden, Aladdin! We jinn must abide by many rules, but first among them, most important of all, we must never fall in love with a human!He catches his breath, swallowing...”
