Assassin Quotes

“Faye tilted her head slightly. “When was your first kill?”
Winston met her stare for a long while, then exhaled. “I was nineteen, fighting a war I probably shouldn’t have been fighting, but it’s not like I knew that at the time.”
“Mm. Did you regret it?”
Winston grinned, but she could see the dark edges to it. “What? You think I come from some tragic backstory, blondie? That I’m a broken little boy who kills to fill that hole inside of my chest where my soul used to be? Nah. This ain’t one of them stories. I can’t dance or roll my tongue, but I can kill people pretty good. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been good at and when I lay my head down at night, I sleep like a baby. I don’t see their faces. Never have. Probably never will.”
A chill spilled through her. The matter-of-fact nature of his confession scared her more than almost anything else she’d ever heard him say.”
― Kyoko M., Of Claws & Inferno

“Being an assassin is not always about the easy kill. It’s about the best kill.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Vengeance of the Pirate Queen

“I am whatever I need to be to survive. Roles are as interchangeable as clothes and there are enough fools out there for me to live a long and prosperous life. The role I’ll play next is that of executioner,” Rondo replied, grinning at each pause.”
― Belart Wright, Into a Dark Adventure

“A smiling assassin will always show you the white of his teeth as he smiles with happiness.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I hate to break this to you, but if you spend all your time on protection detail for a high ranking family and you help to make a lot of their problems go away by eliminating the person responsible, you’re an assassin.”
― Jackson Lear, Protected

“You shouldn’t wear your mask. It could break, and you’ll need it again for something else.”
― Kristen Banet, An Echo of Darkness

“Assassin?” I repeated, numb. “You wanted me to kill for you?!”

“What else were you going to do? Seduce the other side into accepting us with good orgasms?”
― Marie Mistry, A Demon's Horns

“The marriage between hashish and terrorism,” he said, “is as old as time itself. As you know, the word assassin is derived from the Arabic hashashin, the Shia killers who acted under the influence of hashish.”
― Daniel Silva

“People didn’t commission Alias Black to commit murder—no, it was more like paying the devil himself to crawl out from underneath the cobblestones and drag unfortunate souls back with him to hell.”
― Shira Behore, My Brother's Spare

“If he had spent three or more years evading trained assassins and mercenaries, surely one fiend in a tiara didn’t pose a true threat.”
― Kate Stradling, The Heir and the Spare

“He doesn't look like much,' said Tallow.
'He'd be a poor assassin if he stood out.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

“It was wrong. Szabo insiders knew that the whole thing was unspeakable, but they did it anyway. Because they believed sincerely at that point that the enemy was already within. War was upon them. It just hadn’t been declared yet.”
― M J Webb

“She studied the face in the mirror for a good half hour. Scarcely recognised the individual staring back at her. Wondered how much truly remained of the person she was. The turbulent existence, the traumas, the wear and tear, the physical injuries and mental scars... all left indelible marks over time on people like her. They warned her of that from the very outset. Baggage, they called it, because you carry it with you wherever you go. Some bags were heavier than others. Too heavy. Most eventually broke under the enormous strain, succumbed to the inevitable and just burned out. Or ended things in the only way they knew for sure was permanent, removed any variables in favour of a dead cert, you might say.
Humans are frail creatures.”
― M J Webb, A Child of Szabo

“Okay, he’s not going to just tell us, so apparently we need to persuade him.” He quirked his lips as if he were really giving it some serious thought. “Do you think he has fortune cookies under his skin?”
Ricardo eyed him. “Fortune—what?”
August blinked with what Ricardo could only describe as sadistic innocence. “You know—where you break them open and answers come out.”
― Cari Z., L. A. Witt

“I didn’t choose these victims. These victims or um. . . players have selected themselves.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“I hated having to kill you but it’s just a game anyway.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“He wrapped his arm around her shoulders, covering her mouth with his hand. Her eyes took on a wild look.
Good. He had made her fear him. She wasn’t so arrogant now, was she?”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“The Mastermind took a deep breath to calm his agitation with her carrying on. To her, it would just look like he was as overwhelmed as she was.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“What if the killer was here? He or she could be standing behind Laurel at this very moment. Laurel shivered again. She better hurry up and finish this. It wasn’t safe to be out right now.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“It was too quiet. She couldn’t even hear the crickets chirping. The air felt thick and dark. She could almost feel the evilness swirling through the campus.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“I think this was just some crazy coincidence or someone is using this game as a cover for their crime.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“. . . the students that had died were in this Assassin game. She didn’t believe in coincidences so someone was targeting these players. She just hadn’t figured out why.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“Have you heard the murders of Sally, Carl, and Anna?”
“Yeah. Of course. What does that have to do with you though?
“I think I know who killed them.” Whispered Miles.
“Really? Who?”
Miles glanced back and forth. Seeing no one, he yanked out a knife and held it up to Craig. “I did.” Craig’s eyes widened. He opened his mouth but no sound came out. Miles stabbed the knife into Craig’s chest. “I’m sorry but I don’t have a choice.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Assassin

“Earn your salt and ink, Telium.”
― Madeline Te Whiu, The Assassin Thief

“Is it easier to be hated by the one you love, than mourn them?”
― Megan White, The Anatomy of Songs

“I hate not having him. I hate someone else having him even more. Is that love?”
― Megan White, The Anatomy of Songs

“At the very point that we compromise our morals, we have in that instant killed them. And therefore, we become the assassin of the very morals that we claimed to defend.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“They didn’t even know what I did to them and I couldn’t help but wonder what they would do or how they would see me if they knew.”
― Kira Ella

“Don’t get me wrong, I’m a strong, independent witch, and I could easily lift pots and open doors by myself. But dammit, those little things give me butterflies. It's nice to not be treated like an assassin first and a woman second.”
― Marie Mistry, Traitor Witch

“The governments are the biggest serial killers of them all!”
― Steven Magee