He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel..

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all..

I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem..

And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death ….

When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if….

I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too….

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An ….

The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Siste….

I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not….

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say..

... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes..

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?.

I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all..

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves..

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks..

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life..

Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin..

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest..

One heart cannot serve two masters..

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull..

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice..