An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason Quotes

“You see, Seraphina is unable to love. She cannot love as she is in mourning because her father is dead. While we're at it, let's kill her brother too. Two dead relatives are always better than one.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“He looks at me and shakes his head, and he's still smiling, as if the thought of me is too much. I would like to be too much to him.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I think the more you feel, the fewer words there are to describe it. It's as if the words don't do it justice; you can only write what is already dead in your heart.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“Everything begins with an idea. Ideas are infallible, they are indestructible; the only thing stronger than an army of men is an idea whose time has come. It was with this conviction I conspired the very plot we sit on steward of.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“If I've learned anything in my position, it's that there's nothing more deceptive than the obvious.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I wish you’d told me because I could have told you that I didn’t mind,” I say. “I don’t mind that you’re a girl. I like girls. That is, I like them, too.” It’s the first time I’ve admitted it out loud, this confusion I’ve felt since I loved Marlowe, then others like him, who turned out to be nothing like him at all, only to go and involve myself the same way with girls. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t matter, at least not to me, and I don’t know how else to explain it. All i do know is that I liked Kit the boy, and I can’t stop thinking about Kit the girl. Kit the person.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I knew I had her in that place where a word is strong as a spell and a look as intimate as a kiss, the rush of feeling when you know someone is aware of everything you do, when a touch means everything and sometimes, it is.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“Whatever I know of dishonesty and deceit and half-truths hidden behind half-lies, he invented it.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I've loved words and I've hated them, but I've never been indifferent to them. I've spent the last few years fearing them, the way they have the power to give life to the things you feel, things that are safer left unnamed.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“But ideias, as strong as the are, do not write history—men do. Women. We are what give ideas life. Were an idea to die, we could not mourn it.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason