“My soul sees its equal in you.”
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A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
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Renée Ahdieh
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“My soul sees its equal in you.”
“Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.”
“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”
“Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.”
“You are not weak. You are not indecisive. You are strong. Fierce. Capable beyond measure.”
“The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.”
“I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.”
“You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.”
“All we have is now. And our promise to make it better.”
“Love is—a shade of what I feel.”
“Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memor...”
“I know love is fragile. And loving someone like you is near impossible. Like holding something shattered through a raging sandstorm. If you want her to love you, shelter her from that storm…...”