Ace of Shades Quotes

“She was a pistol wrapped up in silk. She was a blade disguised as a girl.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Sometimes we're not who we want to be because we're supposed to be something else.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“People do not play this game to win, my dear. They play this game not to lose.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“She was the girl who’d come afraid to the city that could smell your fear. She’d faced the witch. She’d poisoned the wolf. She’d strolled into the land of death with her head held high and left it a lord. She was an impossible player in a fixed game, the only person not playing to win.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Are you a pearl, or are you a bullet?”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“And he would tell her that, even after losing everything he'd ever wanted, he still desperately wanted her.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“You’ll be a weapon to whoever owns you.” “I’m just a girl,” Enne countered. “And no one owns me.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Now, as she held her breath and desperately searched the faces of strangers around her, she felt that she was more broken than not. One exhale, one sob, and all her pieces would shatter.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“f you want something, you should let yourself have it.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Sometimes we’re not who we want to be because we’re supposed to be something else,”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Look at all the places the author says not to visit. Hundreds! We’ll have to go on a tour.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Desire fame, and the city will make you a tragedy.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Now, she was poisoning him for the girls who hadn’t known better. For all the girls fed to the wolves.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Her guidebook had been wrong about one thing: the most dangerous part of the City of Sin wasn't the beckoning of the card tables or the threat of the gangs, it was the allure of Levi Glaisyer's roguish smile,”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“What do I look like?” she asked. Jac grinned. “Like a Sinner.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“She rooted around her pocket, pulling out a tube of lipstick, the gun and the silk mask,
All the girlie necessities, apparently.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“She'd walked into the Deadman District and emerged a lord. She carried poison in one pocket and a gun in the other.
She was a blade disguised as a girl.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Money is power, and power corrupts. In this city, corruption reigns supreme.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“We'll get mugged walking around with a map. That tourist nonsense is an affront to everything I stand for."
"What do you stand for? Bravado?"
"Obviously.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Jac inspected the cigar, clearly decided he no longer wanted it, and offered it to Enne.
"What do I look like?" she asked.
Jac grinned. "Like a Sinner.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“I'm stronger than you think," Jac grumbled.
"But not as strong as you think." Levi grabbed Jac by the jaw and opened his mouth. "That's a nice missing tooth.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades