Daindreth's Assassin Quotes

“I’ll knock sense into him, if I have to.” A part of Amira hoped she’d have to.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Something about being told she couldn’t have him had revealed how much she wanted him.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“It was not swords that had played the largest role in building the empire. Pretense, more than anything, had allowed the Fanduillion bloodline to seize power over the entire continent. Two-thirds of a battle was convincing your enemy he was beaten—”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Vesha had offered Amira the empire, but she wanted its heir.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Not a sorceress, not one who wove the power of the natural world into tapestries of spells, but a witch. One who had no innate power, but gathered hers by manipulating creatures of the other world to do her bidding.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“[in need] for some explanation of what in Moreyne's Dread March was happening.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Daindreth had been cursed, same as she was. He couldn’t help it. But where her curse had shattered her into sharp edges and left her with smoldering rage, Daindreth’s had made him kind. All that pain, terror, and anger and it had made him kind.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“[Listing all the things D messed up for her], but you are protecting me?”

Daindreth flinched. “I didn’t say I was good at it.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Sometimes,” he said, speaking each word with careful, deliberate precision, “service and obedience are two different things.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“As much as she hated not knowing, there was a kind of optimism in ignorance. As soon as she discovered the full truth, she’d have to face it.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Every curse could be broken, that was one of the rules of magic. But possible wasn’t the same thing as likely or easy.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Do you trust me, Amira?”

Amira considered that for a moment. “I trust you as much as I trust myself.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Neutrality was a coward’s defense.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“There was no spell, enchantment, potion, or curse that could force someone to think or feel something that didn’t originate in their own soul. Even Amira’s curse didn’t control her mind, strictly speaking, it just imposed a physical consequence.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Amira no more trusted him than she would trust a starving kelpie.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“Amira believed that everyone married for love—just not usually love of the person they married. Yeomen tended to marry for love of grazing land and sturdy roofs. Merchants married for love of money and trade routes. Kings and archdukes married for love of power.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin

“the empire. She was willing to suffer to protect their homeland, but Amira doubted any of them knew just how much that demon’s bride would suffer.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Assassin