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“Remind me to thank God I dont have a sister.Caine eyed him critically. He was a filthy heap of blood and soot and sand stuck to the gun oil on his face. Yeah, without much enthusiasm. Ill thank Him...”
“Shed said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and hed thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself.”
“There will always be another war, Gillia. He allowed his cynicism to seep through. Do you know why? Because there will always be bigots and cowards and power-mad devils in positions of omnipotence....”
“There are still many souls to be won for Christ, she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcastbut not, he figured, in humility. Even here. Perhaps, especially here. Where better to spread his love...”
“Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in fascination while the savage radicals eyes misted over wi...”
“Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getti...”
“Ive crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you. I love you. Ive done nothing in my life worth more than that.”
“His head snapped sharply aside to collide with his own aching shoulder. The hulking brute he had heard referred to as Abdullah leaned into Caines face while his brain was yet reeling, flexing his f...”
“This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.”
“What she knew was sand and wind and innumerable stars. The rumble in a camels throat as it swayed over shifting dunes, its trappings jingling in time with its steps beneath her. She knew the sting ...”
“He squinted at her. He recalled the tears in her eyes that had not fallen into her teacup. No, it wasnt a revelation. Not even to him. Yet, this was the same woman who had stolen a camel right out ...”
“I stole you, among others, from the streets of Gods birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated and starved you and your companion. To top it off, I am in the process of sel...”
“Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port? He went on and snorted carelessly. No wonder you were abducted so easily.”
“Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy.”
“Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched in his hands.”
“La muaxsa, but I think Ill just keep sliding down this greased pole to hell?”
“When silence greeted her question, she looked at Cainefor that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the moments after: his brothers murderer.”
“Just say, dakhilak.Without hesitation, Dakhilak.He nodded. Her accent was getting no better. Now, you can never take it back.Well, what does it mean? Thank you?She should have asked sooner. He didn...”
“And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it with combat boots. Did he sit in that seditious palace day after day and not even bother...”
“She thought she loved him. She was crazy.”
