A Tudor Turk Quotes

“I always wanted to travel, but now that I am, all I want is to go home”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“My father always says, to know a man, you must visit his library, for the contours of his mind have been shaped by the words on his bookshelf”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Hard times don’t last for ever, hard people do”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Strength is about pulling yourself together, even after you’ve been shattered into a thousand pieces. Falling is merely the first movement we take before rising”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Do you miss home? Awa asked. “Home is where you find comfort” John replied.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Raising the sword aloft is sometimes the only way to make the other side stand down.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers, briefly reminding Awa of poetry readings under starry skies in Timbuktu”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“If the sea could speak, he thought blindly, it would be screaming at him”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“In the depths of darkness, search for the heavenly light to guide you. Hold firm to the Lord of the Worlds. He will bring you back to us.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Remember, my sister, even the light of a thousand splendid suns falls short of the majesty of the Creator. He will save us.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“The world is agony. When you die, you’ll get some rest”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Remember, a person who shows courage is a person who has mastered fear, not banished it”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Freezing winter snow was not meant for Songhai like Awa, she belonged to the sun, and the sooner she returned to it, the better”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“The bleakness weighed heavy on her, yet Awa consoled herself with the knowledge that above the clouds, somewhere the sun still shone”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Unfortunately, in this unruly world, a man of peace would be a pauper, for violence was the only currency that mattered.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“The sea divides Africa from Europe. Yet the people who live in those lands, need not be divided. I’ve lived in both places and I know from experience we are more alike, than we’d like to believe”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“When you travel in the world, you read from the vast expanse of human thought and experience, you realise you know so little.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Our friends are dead, but their memories remain, like a feather floating in the wind, with care we can preserve it.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Each man lives in the hope he will one day be legend. I no longer think of myself this way.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Only you can decide the person you want to be.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“You did well, controlling your temper with the Portuguese. How you react to a situation is an illustration of your character.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“My type of politics leads to a clash of religions, a clash of cultures and a clash of races. Your type of politics unifies under an imperial cause. In the end I will win, because dividing and conquering is far easier than unifying the hearts of men.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“You strike me as a good man, Commander, but where the good are put in charge of the wicked, empires will be destroyed. It is when the wicked are given oversight of the good, does empire become strong.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“By yourself you are but one woman, together we are a unit”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“The Songhai are one another’s shield, we are the hands which sow the seed and reap the harvest.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Remember, Will Ryde, the human soul is like a torn garment, attached to the divine by a single thread, yet yearning for wholeness”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“The Sultan is the most powerful man in the world. His supremacy is based on winning wars, yet all the people want is peace. Whether he is adept at this . . . well, that is quite another matter.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“All men are afflicted with some burden or the other,” he said, “and one can be fooled into thinking a fellow is uncaring when all he is, is heart-broken.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“The dawn sky was a metallic grey and Awa knew there would be no sun today”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“He realised how poor he was. Yet he had seen wealth, so close by, in lanes filled with commerce, in homes like palaces. The gulf between wealth and poverty was it seemed a condition of every society.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk