Assassin Quotes

“That’s kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn’t catch you, then you’re not doing anything wrong, are you?” That sounded true. That sounded very true!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Well, then, maybe she needed more friends so that some of them could be expendable. If anything happened to Clay right now, it would be the END OF ALL THINGS. She would literally burn down the world.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“He realized that his claws were shaking as he moved into position. He knew he could do what he needed to … but he wasn’t as certain about escaping afterward. If I get caught, my life is over. And then what happens to Quickstrike? He couldn’t think about her in this moment. He had to focus on the mission, as she would have ordered. But is this the right thing to do? Would she approve? Would she tell me to be stealthier? There was no way to know; he was the only one here who could make this decision. And they were coming out of the tent now. He had to do this now.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I’m supposed to kill THAT? Commander”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Read this scroll, sweep this cave, catch that exact fish, kill that misbehaving prisoner”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Idiotic hopeful former self”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Sure enough, a few moments later, an enormous blue-green SeaWing emerged from the water, shaking her wings vigorously. She was powerfully built, as big as Morrowseer, with broad shoulders and gleaming teeth and a healing burn scar on her neck, and she had a trident longer than Deathbringer strapped to her back. Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I’m supposed to kill THAT?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“But this will never happen again, he vowed. If I ever find someone else to care about, I will not let my mission come first. I will break any order. I’ll endanger my own tribe if I have to. I will make up for this somehow. Someday.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“That’s …” Morrowseer paused and regarded him for a moment. “Aggravating. I don’t do business with sniveling dragonets.” “Then you’re in luck,” said Deathbringer. “I am firmly anti-sniveling myself.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Sure enough, a few moments later, an enormous blue-green SeaWing emerged from the water, shaking her wings vigorously. She was powerfully built, as big as Morrowseer, with broad shoulders and gleaming teeth and a healing burn scar on her neck, and she had a trident longer than Deathbringer strapped to her back. Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I’m supposed to kill THAT? Commander Tempest was followed by two more SeaWings: a big green male dragon with dark green eyes and gold bands around his ankles, and a wiry female with small eyes and dark gray-blue scales. Behind them, keeping their scales in the water as they eyed the troops on the beach, were about twenty other SeaWing soldiers. “Blister!” Commander Tempest shouted, stamping one foot in the sand. “We’re here! Let’s get this over with!” The”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Finally his attention was caught by an enormous splash off to his right. He lifted his head to look and saw a small whale come surging out of the water, thrashing and twisting. A moment later, sharp blue claws sank into the whale’s sides and it was dragged back under, disappearing in a cloud of red bubbles. He stared at the spot intently and realized that there were ripples extending far out from that spot … as if a parade of sea dragons were swimming their way. Sure”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“The first step was finding Vengeance and Slaughter, which should have been easy after Quickstrike’s training. One of Deathbringer’s regular assignments was memorizing the new guard roster and the rotating hunting schedule every week. So he knew that Slaughter was supposed to be on watch, patrolling the outer towers, and Vengeance was not scheduled for hunting.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“niches,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“surround”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Deathbringer had found his night vision growing stronger the longer he was away from the Night Kingdom.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Obedience to your elders: the most important thing a young NightWing had to learn.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Read this scroll, sweep this cave, catch that exact fish, kill that misbehaving prisoner — whatever it was, he did it, no questions asked. (Well. He’d wanted to ask questions about the prisoner. Such as: Why did anyone bring a mud dragon to the secret night dragon home in the first place?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“A pattern of black diamond scales ran along her back and real black diamonds hung from her ears, outlined in white gold. An aura of menace seemed to surround her.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“a wiry female with small eyes and dark gray-blue scales.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“a big green male dragon with dark green eyes and gold bands around his ankles,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“an enormous blue-green SeaWing emerged from the water, shaking her wings vigorously. She was powerfully built, as big as Morrowseer, with broad shoulders and gleaming teeth and a healing burn scar on her neck, and she had a trident longer than Deathbringer strapped to her”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“Deathbringer”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin

“The brighter the moons were, the more wide-awake Deathbringer felt.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Assassin