{"quotes":[{"text":"This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.","author":"Jennifer Estep","tags":["assassin","food","funny"],"id":6158,"author_id":"Jennifer+Estep"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robin LaFevers","tags":["assassin","assassins","death","killing","murder"],"id":29350,"author_id":"Robin+LaFevers"},{"text":"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 assassin, there is no need to be coy. “I prefer a garrote. I like the intimacy it allows me when I whisper reminders of vengeance in their ears as they die. But in your case, I had sharpened my favorite knife especially for the occasion.”His brows quirk up. “Why no garrote for me?”I look pointedly at his thick neck, bulging with muscle and sinew. “I do not have one big enough,” I mutter.","author":"Robin LaFevers","tags":["assassin","assassins","garrote","murder"],"id":53476,"author_id":"Robin+LaFevers"},{"text":"I want to take my time with you - to learn … every inch of you. And this apartment has very, very thin walls. I don’t want to have an audience” he added as he leaned down again, brushing his mouth over the cut at the base of her throat, “when I make you moan, Aelin.","author":"Sarah J. Maas","tags":["assassin","fae","fantasy","love","queen","romance"],"id":76592,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Maas"},{"text":"Sir Arthur stopped at the bottom of the hill and awaited the charging rider. The horseman halted in front of Sir Arthur and mud flew in all directions.“Who are you?” demanded Sir Arthur. He stared into the masked face and turbaned head of an assassin.Rufus's heart stopped. A gasp escaped his frozen lips and his legs wobbled.Sir Arthur asked again, “Who are you?”The man dismounted and drew from his golden sash a long scimitar. He approached Sir Arthur. The knight lifted his sword and the duel began.","author":"Justus A. Platt","tags":["action","assassin","suspense","swordfight"],"id":95694,"author_id":"Justus+A.+Platt"},{"text":"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.","author":"Linsey Miller","tags":["assassin","assassins","death","dying","linsey-miller","mask-of-shadows","murder","regret","sal-leon","sallot-leon","tw-death"],"id":107266,"author_id":"Linsey+Miller"},{"text":"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.","author":"Eddie Campbell","tags":["assassin","power"],"id":112487,"author_id":"Eddie+Campbell"},{"text":"Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association).","author":"Linda Heavner Gerald","tags":["assassin","bali","government-agent","inspirational","love","romance","travel"],"id":115450,"author_id":"Linda+Heavner+Gerald"},{"text":"What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the world, then?’‘An illusion,’ replied Altaïr. ‘One we can either submit to – as most do – or transcend.’‘And what is it to transcend?’'To recognize that laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our Creed does not command us to be free.’ And suddenly he really did understand. ‘It commands us to be wise.","author":"Oliver Bowden","tags":["al-mualim","altair","altaïr","answer","assassin","assassin-s-creed","command","cool","creed","crusade","divinity","faith","free","freedom","hope","illusion","laws","lie","mankind","mart","mualim","oliver-bowden","ourselves","people","question","quote","reality","really","reason","recognize","secret","submit","to-be","transcend","true","truth","understand","understandm-wise","wisdom","world"],"id":127280,"author_id":"Oliver+Bowden"},{"text":"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 commando team to take a dump.","author":"Allen Zadoff","tags":["assassin","high-school","suspense","thriller","ya-adventure"],"id":127492,"author_id":"Allen+Zadoff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}