The Assassin's Curse
Cassandra Rose Clarke
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble.”
“You don't realize how much you miss something till it comes back to you, and then you wonder how you went so long without it.”
“I can't believe this," I muttered, cradling the skein of water up close to my chest. "Two weeks in the desert all on account of some assassin who doesn't know how to look out for snakes." "If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you." " Oh, shut up.”
“I'd handed my heart over to him, a damned blood magic assassin, without even realizing it.”
“Well, look who's on my front porch," he said, speaking Empire with this odd hissing accent. "A murderer and a cross-dressing pirate." I looked down at my clothes, ripped and shredded and covered in mud and sand and dried blood. I'd forgotten I was dressed like a boy. "So are you here to kill me or to rob me?" the man said. "I generally don't find it useful to glow when undertaking acts of subterfuge, but then, I'm just a wizard”
“I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out.”
“He smelled like magic and sweat and the sea, but there was something else beneath all that, something sweet and warm like honey, and just for a moment I didn't feel afraid anymore.”
“Beautiful people, things are to easy for them. They don't know how to survive in this world. Somebody's ugly, or even plain, normal-looking, that means they got to work twice as hard for things. For anything. Just to get peple to listen to 'em, or take 'em serious. So yeah. I don't trust beautiful people.”
“You!" I shouted. "What's wrong with you?" He blinked at me. "I thought you got turned into a fern." "Oh. Oh, Ananna, I'm sorry I didn't think-”
“Nobody writes down stories." [Ananna] "They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji]”
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