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“She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“You don't realize how much you miss something till it comes back to you, and then you wonder how you went so long without it.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“I can't believe this," I muttered, cradling the skein of water up close to my chest. "Two weeks in the desert all on account of some assassin who doesn't know how to look out for snakes."
"If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you."
" Oh, shut up.”
― The Assassin's Curse
"If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you."
" Oh, shut up.”
― The Assassin's Curse
“I'd handed my heart over to him, a damned blood magic assassin, without even realizing it.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“Well, look who's on my front porch," he said, speaking Empire with this odd hissing accent. "A murderer and a cross-dressing pirate."
I looked down at my clothes, ripped and shredded and covered in mud and sand and dried blood. I'd forgotten I was dressed like a boy.
"So are you here to kill me or to rob me?" the man said. "I generally don't find it useful to glow when undertaking acts of subterfuge, but then, I'm just a wizard”
― The Assassin's Curse
I looked down at my clothes, ripped and shredded and covered in mud and sand and dried blood. I'd forgotten I was dressed like a boy.
"So are you here to kill me or to rob me?" the man said. "I generally don't find it useful to glow when undertaking acts of subterfuge, but then, I'm just a wizard”
― The Assassin's Curse
“I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“He smelled like magic and sweat and the sea, but there was something else beneath all that, something sweet and warm like honey, and just for a moment I didn't feel afraid anymore.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“Beautiful people, things are to easy for them. They don't know how to survive in this world. Somebody's ugly, or even plain, normal-looking, that means they got to work twice as hard for things. For anything. Just to get peple to listen to 'em, or take 'em serious. So yeah. I don't trust beautiful people.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“You!" I shouted. "What's wrong with you?"
He blinked at me.
"I thought you got turned into a fern."
"Oh. Oh, Ananna, I'm sorry I didn't think-”
― The Assassin's Curse
He blinked at me.
"I thought you got turned into a fern."
"Oh. Oh, Ananna, I'm sorry I didn't think-”
― The Assassin's Curse
“Nobody writes down stories." [Ananna]
"They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji]”
― The Assassin's Curse
"They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji]”
― The Assassin's Curse
“What stopped you? Why didn't you help her?" [Naji]
"Cause you're my friend," I said. [Ananna]
All the hardness in his features melted away. "Oh.”
― The Assassin's Curse
"Cause you're my friend," I said. [Ananna]
All the hardness in his features melted away. "Oh.”
― The Assassin's Curse
“You know, that pissed me off. We'd traveled half around the world to get to him, and there were monsters chasing us and Naji's curse was impossible to break, and here he was cracking jokes about our professions.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“For the first time, I understood the difference between leaving and not staying. It was the difference between a snarl and a smile.”
― The Pirate's Wish
― The Pirate's Wish
“What kinda vows?" Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“I thought the assassin was moving kind of slow for an assassin. Maybe the magic had done something after all. Or maybe he felt sorry for me. That sort of thing happens among cutthroats more often than you'd expect.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“You can't escape an assasin," He leaned forward, shadows swallowing his eyes. "Hangings, bumbling bureaucrats, dishonest crewman, jail - those you can talk your way out of, you try hard enough. But this kind of death is the is the only kind of death.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me.
"See?" he said. "Now you know how it feels"
I glared at him for a few seconds. He looked kind of pleased with himself, but he also looked kind of happy, and that was enough for me to turn back to my equations.”
― The Assassin's Curse
"See?" he said. "Now you know how it feels"
I glared at him for a few seconds. He looked kind of pleased with himself, but he also looked kind of happy, and that was enough for me to turn back to my equations.”
― The Assassin's Curse
“I wasn't really going to go. I ain't so heartless I'm gonna let someone be struck down with pain on account of me. Even if that someone is a murderer and a liar. Hell, murderers and liars used to sing me to sleep.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“You might as well get used to it."
"What, fish? Trust me, I'm plenty used to fish."
"No," he said. "Letting me protect you.”
― The Pirate's Wish
"What, fish? Trust me, I'm plenty used to fish."
"No," he said. "Letting me protect you.”
― The Pirate's Wish
“They wouldn't have rescued you," he said. "They wouldn't risk bringing an outsider through Kajjil."
"Guess I just ruin everything for you, don't I? Give you headaches and keep you from getting rescued-"
"I told them no," he said, "even when I thought - when I hoped - the Eirnin would have cured me.”
― The Assassin's Curse
"Guess I just ruin everything for you, don't I? Give you headaches and keep you from getting rescued-"
"I told them no," he said, "even when I thought - when I hoped - the Eirnin would have cured me.”
― The Assassin's Curse
“But if a girl don't have her intuition, she don't got anything.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“That made me sad. Sure, sirens are a pain in the ass, but how could he not see all the beauty that was out there-- the starlight leaving stains of brightness in the water, the salt-kissed wind? I wanted to find a way to share it with him, show him there was more in the world than blood and shadow.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“There is nothing else like me in the entire world, said Finn. "That's what you wrote. I'm the only one. I can't tell you what it means to be the only one of my kind," he said. "I can't...There is a lack in myself. But your thesis almost filled it in. It was...a start.”
― The Mad Scientist's Daughter
― The Mad Scientist's Daughter
“Love is a wound," the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.”
― The Pirate's Wish
― The Pirate's Wish
“Cockiness is useful to fake on occasion, but it'll only get you killed if you believe it.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“I loved him more fiercely than I'd love anyone. But he didn't love me back.”
― The Pirate's Wish
― The Pirate's Wish
“He didn't ask - of course he didn't ask - but he did show up at the captain's quarters one evening after dinner looking sheepish.”
― The Assassin's Curse
― The Assassin's Curse
“Desire is simple," he said. "Desire is something even a machine can understand." There was a stillness in the air that mirrored the stillness of his body. "But when I desired you I began to love you. You were the first being I ever loved. I didn't know it, of course. I had no idea what it meant, no idea what I was feeling. Love was never something I was supposed to experience. I don't think I was supposed to know desire, either, but she never expected me to meet you." He laughed against her skin. "Later, after your father… when he took out those restrictions, I was finally able to understand the complexities of love. Even if I didn't want to. At first.”
― The Mad Scientist's Daughter
― The Mad Scientist's Daughter