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“Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.”
“You want to come back to the bank vault? Jack says.The bank vault. Thats what Jack calls his house.”
“There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a com...”
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done by Robespierre, by Car...”
“I would remember them forevertheir names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and their eyes stared through me. If I stopped, if I let their deaths weigh me down and keep me from bein...”
“Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.”
“If they were going to kill you, would they knock?”
“He pauses then, studying me. How would you have done it?His question surprises me. You mean how would I have killed you?Yes. Do you have a favorite method for such things?Since he knows I am an ass...”
“I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.”
“The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion...”
“Fine, its decided. Vain resumed his stride. Ill do all the killing, and you doall the stuff that an Avun-Riah does. Whatever the hell that is.”
“Junes clients did not have the patience to deal with problems or the personal courage and energy to find solutions on their own. What they did have was an almost endless supply of capital. With tha...”
“That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.”
“He dropped the phone back onto its cradle, began to turn around and felt a sudden ice-cold furrow open up in his side. Strength drained from his legs, and a moment later he sank to his knees. There...”
“I'm not ill like that, she groaned. He sat on her bed, peeling back the blanket. A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help.Then it what way?I,uh... Her face was so ...”
“The hand-plucked rose loses meaning as life is leached. Red love, once clutched to breast, putrefies and is thrown to the midden.The hand leaked life as meaning was pucked. Putrefaction clutched lo...”
“Im not in the torturing business, but I am in the monster-killing business.”
“Our Freedoms come from those that keep our beliefs, our ideology, and lifestyle safe. You may never know who they are but salute their presence. Their only glory is knowing we recognize their effor...”
“Who might you be? she demanded. A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony?”
“My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”
