Assassin's Promise Quotes

“How is it that an assassin can smell so good?” she mumbled as he stepped into the shadows of her room.  “It’s a lure I use to draw my victims in close.” She sniffed him again. The hairs tightened on the back of his neck. “Mmm. Do you kill many women?” “I haven’t yet, but I have no gender preference when it comes to victims. I kill enemies. Period. So far, though, they’ve all been male.” “Maybe you should specialize.” “Why?” “Because you smell like a snickerdoodle. An assassin cookie. Women would be helpless to fight you.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“What if I stay in your heart, and you ache for me as I do for you? Will you be brave? Will you fight for me?” She did ache for him. Already. “I don’t want to.” “But will you?” “I’ve never fought for anything like that.” He turned his hands palm-up under hers. “Yes, you have. You’ve fought for your life. You’ve fought for your career.” He pressed his face against her hair. “Will you fight for me?” She turned and looked up at him. “Greer, you terrify me.” He nodded. “As you do me.” He touched her hair.  “Will you fight for me?” she asked. “Oh, yeah.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Val and I are in the worst drought of our lives, and you’re popping kids?” Angel grumbled.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“They can hear your thoughts, you know, the people you’re tracking, he’d told Greer. Thought waves go first, tickling the senses. Empty your mind. Silence it, his grandfather had warned.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Shit.” Val smiled at him. “Maybe you should read my cards or something.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“As if she wouldn’t light up his world even in rags.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“The dark side is very dark. Most people never have to see what we see. The world we live in is nothing like your civilian world. You have the world you have because we do the work we do.” His”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Roger that. I’ll send backup for the backup.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Lion glared at Kit. “You judge me, but you don’t know me.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Surely someone who smelled like a cookie couldn’t be terribly dangerous, right?”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“He stared into her eyes. She could almost see the doors to his heart and his soul slam shut. He dropped his hands and stepped back. “Got it.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“He shook his head. “I’ll be hollow. My ancestors had the perfect term for that. ‘Mahasani.’ It means you are the me that lives outside of myself. When you’re not near, I’ll have nothing.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Can fucking dead eyes still see? he wondered.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“He sighed, throwing his arms out to his sides. “See? I’ve lost my mojo,” he said to the room at large. Hope set her beer on the coffee table and went over to him. “I’ll dance with you.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Some of them. Will you join us?” “Only if you sit on my lap to protect me from them.” “Deal!”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Fuck. It. All.  His heart was his to give. Even if it came back to him bruised and battered.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“I’ve been trying to see us from a rational, non-hormonal frame of mind,” she said.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Sleep now. When we wake up, we’ll figure out what’s next. I’ve got you. You’ve got me. We’re safe. So sleep.” My love.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“She could live like this, in automaton mode. She could exist. Numb was nice. Numb didn’t hurt. Numb didn’t fear. Numb didn’t bleed.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“It wasn’t a simple thing, their embrace; it was a wave of motion.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Not all warriors wield knives and guns, Remi. Sometimes, simple resistance makes a person a fighter. Refusing to cave to wrongful domination or bullying is the bravest act of all.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Not me,” Val disagreed. “I’ve lost my mojo. Let Max go see her.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Chasing Dr. Chase?”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“I’ll be hollow. My ancestors had the perfect term for that. ‘Mahasani.’ It means you are the me that lives outside of myself. When you’re not near, I’ll have nothing.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise

“Neither. I told you I want to leave.”
― Elaine Levine, Assassin's Promise