Assassins Quotes

“Where will we go?"
"I hear hell is particularly nice at this time of year.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“was it even my own mind making the decisions?”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“How to throw assassins off balance: cry in front of them.”
― Leah Cypess, Death Sworn

“They can make all the plans they want but it doesn't mean I have to cooperate with them”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help but wonder: Do I love killing? Of a certainty, I love the way my body and weapons move as one; I revel in the knowledge of where to strike for maximum impact. And of a certainty, I am good at it.”
― Robin LaFevers, Dark Triumph

“I would remember them forever–their 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 being Opal, it was all for nothing. There was no going back. I was what I was, and they were a part of me now.”
― Linsey Miller, Mask of Shadows

“There were three ways to kill a king:
You could face him with all the force of your military might, and in the end one of you would fall.
You could stab him from behind like a coward, cringing in the shadows.
Or you could kill him slowly, from the inside out, so he wouldn't even know until it was too late. If you did your job right, he might even thank you for it.
These were the differences between Soldiers, Assassins, and Politicians.
Only Politicians did it with a certain flair.”
― Traci Chee, The Speaker

“The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning. Ideals too easily give way to dogma. Dogma becomes fanaticism. No higher power sits in judgement of us. No supreme being watches to punish us for our sins. In the end, only we ourselves can guard against our obsessions. Only we can decide whether the road we walk carries too high a toll. We believe ourselves redeemers, avengers, saviours. We make war on those who oppose us, and they in turn make war on us. We dream of leaving our stamp upon the world... even as we give our lives in a conflict that will be recorded in no history book. All that we do, all that we are, begins and ends with ourselves.”
― Arno Victor Dorian

“No, but if I were an illegal, experimental replicant hiding the truth of an international conspiracy I would try and put myself out of the way of those investigating it, wouldn't you? I don't think hiding under a bed will be very successful. But, if you've any better idea of what the deadly robot assassin is up to, please feel free to act upon it.”
― Guy Haley, Reality 36

“Нищо не е абсолютна истина, всичко е позволено.”
― Viktor Stoyanov, Кула от лъжи

“Her bare feet whispered across the floor as she approached him with the sort of stealth that only small children and trained killers possess.”
― Obie Williams, The Crimes of Orphans

“We are talking about a bunch of mindless bottom feeders who is general ignorance of a way of life is tempered only by their indifference to human suffering, we are all agreed on that?"
"Is this the politicians all the killers?"
"good point, but I meant the killers.”
― Mick Herron, London Rules

“Silent as shadows. Bold as night. Calm as wind. One shall die tonight.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“If you think me weak, bring forth your champion and let me do battle with him.
And kill in that childish way of the Franks? Full of pomp and bravado? We are masters of death here. We do not play at it. - Ware & Sinan”
― Iris Johansen, Lion's Bride

“Xalqın qayğısız və tənbəl olduğunun fərqinə vardım. Onlar üçün özümü fəda etməyə dəyməzdi. Nahaq yerə onları oyandırmağa və ayıltmağa çalışmışdım. Yoxsa insanların həqiqətin nə olduğuna maraq göstərdiklərinə inanırsan? Heç veclərinə belə deyil! İstədikləri ancaq rahatlıqlarının pozulmaması və xəyal güclərini canlandırmaq üçün uydurulmuş nağıllardan ibarətdir. Ya da kimin haqlı kimin haqsız olduğunun onlar üçün əhəmiyyət kəsb etdiyinimi fikirləşirsən? Əsla! Yetər ki, onların istəklərinin bir qismini yerinə yetirəsən.”
― Vladimir Bartol, Alamut

“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

“Some people loathe the act of killing a person at first, but as they continue to do it, it can feel like a game. They can begin to feel superior, like the winner of the game. But, if the reaper has to save a life for every life they take, it keeps them humble. It’s a matter of subservience so the reaper doesn’t begin to think of himself stronger than he is.”
― Pauline Creeden

“Once, within the dark threads of her existence, love was the reason she fought through all her troubles. Now it was the same reason that drove her toward her uncertain fate. She would welcome her own death once everything was over.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“Ayara was no saviour tonight. No, she wasn’t a saviour at all.
Ayara Drogon was a Shadow Assassin and she was the personification of death.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“She loved her mother, but she loved Kestrel more than her own life.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“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

“They built their own lesser cities, tumbling into cemeteries and ruins, rising on the walls of elderly, long-forgotten settlements. Cities of corrugated metal sheets, cheap wood and rotting blankets, the remains of the world for the remains of the people.”
― Joely Black, Wasps

“All my life, I've killed at the whim of a violent king.”
― C.E. Olson, Realms Of Stone And Gold

“Patience is the assassin's greatest ally.”
― R.J. Barker, Age of Assassins

“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

“Police officers are armed and dangerous, and some are known killers that are protected by the blue brotherhood.”
― Steven Magee

“Tonight, she went prowling at two of the local clubs. She intrigued him. It was the feline way she moved, fluid and graceful, a lioness, in a slinky black dress. She disappeared in the shadows, seen when she wanted to be, invisible when she wished. He knew the moment she detected him, by the subtle shift of her eyes, the slight turn of her head. The lioness caught the scent of the lion, and at 11:30 pm, she led him back to her den.

The meeting did not go as planned, then again, lions are not tame. —Reuben ben Judah and Kayah ben Samuel”
― Staci Morrison, M3-The Outsiders

“Après la destruction d'Alamout (1256), la secte des Assassins s'est perpétuée sous une forme on ne peut plus pacifique : les ismaéliens, adeptes de l'Aga Khan, dont on oublie parfois qu'il est le successeur en droite ligne de Hassan as-Sabbah.”
― Amin Maalouf, Les croisades vues par les Arabes

“You knew,” Nilsa repeats. “Yet no one thought to mention he was a prince with assassins after him?”

“If we’re talking about keeping secrets, you might want to stop the self-righteous act, witch. If you’ll recall, you’ve not been exactly forthcoming.”
― Marie Mistry, Liar Witch

“I'd rather cut a man's throat than hold his hand.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Blade Breaker