Top 100 Quotes About Lafevers
#1. And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.
R.L. LaFevers
#4. He lowers his lips to mine, placing them over my mouth gently, our kiss bearing the weight of a thousand we may never have.
Robin LaFevers
#5. When one has made as many mistakes as I have, one becomes very familiar with the fullness of God's grace and mercy.
Robin LaFevers
#6. It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.
R.L. LaFevers
#7. I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.
R.L. LaFevers
#8. You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.
R.L. LaFevers
#9. God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.'
'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife.
'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.
R.L. LaFevers
#10. The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.
R.L. LaFevers
#11. I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.
Robin LaFevers
#12. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.
R.L. LaFevers
#14. Indeed, I am as skilled as any alchemist, but instead of turning lead into gold, I turn my fear into daring, and assuredly that is a far greater trick.
Robin LaFevers
#15. Men of power are unwilling to believe anything ill of their own kind.
Robin LaFevers
#16. People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.
R.L. LaFevers
#17. It is unwise for them to be so very happy, for the gods will feel the need to humble us.
R.L. LaFevers
#18. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.
R.L. LaFevers
#19. The abbess may well try and force me to return to the convent, silent and in disgrace, but I will not go back. Not like this. Indeed, I can see no way I can ever return to the convent, for the abbess will not let me return in victory, and I refuse to do so in defeat.
Robin LaFevers
#20. My lady! Come away from there before you catch your death! Her words bring a smile to my lips. Does she think Death is some small bird with my name written on it, beating at the window in the hope that I will catch it?
Robin LaFevers
#21. Besides, he is one of the few things that has ever loved me and survived.
Robin LaFevers
#22. A kiss for luck, demoiselle?"
It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last.
Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.
R.L. LaFevers
#23. My hand tightens on my wine goblet, and I am glad it is silver, not glass, for surely it would shatter under the force of my annoyance with this woman.
Robin LaFevers
#24. I must have faith, but having faith is hard, so very much harder than despair.
Robin LaFevers
#25. Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
R.L. LaFevers
#26. So ... You are well equipped for our service.'
'Which is?'
'We kill people.
R.L. LaFevers
#27. As far as I can tell, it doesn't make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with the other adult.
R.L. LaFevers
#28. You're jealous!" I am so surprised I scarce remember to keep my voice low. He flinches at the word, then looks sorely affronted. "Jealous? Of that old man? Nay, it is just that if anyone is to hunt you, it should be me.
Robin LaFevers
#29. Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.
R.L. LaFevers
#30. When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
R.L. LaFevers
#31. Just as I am drifting off to sleep, he speak again, so softly I almost cannot be certain it is not a dream.
I am sorry. You make me ashamed of what we are, of what little we can offer you, and I lashed out at you when what I really wanted was to punish my own dark thoughts.
Robin LaFevers
#33. I know I should look away, let him grieve in private, but I cannot. The sweet girl that I knew only briefly is the key to this gentle beast who has captured my heart.
Robin LaFevers
#34. Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way."
"I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.
R.L. LaFevers
#35. Lie as convincingly as I can and pray she doesn't kill someone important.
Robin LaFevers
#36. The first book I opened looked promising - Mummies and Their Secrets by Sir Lynn N. Bandage.
R.L. LaFevers
#37. Don't you see? Your mortal heart shines like a candle flame and I, like one of those hapless black moths you used to leave as an offering, am helpless before its lure.
Robin LaFevers
#38. He snorts in disbelief. Is that yet another miracle of Mortain? That His acolytes are able to contort themselves enough to tend to their own backs?
Robin LaFevers
#39. It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.
R.L. LaFevers
#40. And have you never questioned your faith? Never doubted or turned your back on Him?"
"No. I have not.
Robin LaFevers
#41. I point out. It was the most foolish, jape-fisted bit of buffoonery I have ever seen, and I am impressed in spite of that.
Robin LaFevers
#42. I was wondering, since I have kissed you three times now, if you might turn into a handsome prince." At the sight of his quick, easy grin, I feel my heart dance in my chest.
"Alas, you are still stuck with a toad, my lady.
Robin LaFevers
#43. I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.
R.L. LaFevers
#44. While I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.
R.L. LaFevers
#46. I want you to be with me for the right reasons. Not because you feel you must or because you fear we will die, but because you want it with your heart and your body.
Robin LaFevers
#47. Some days, like today, my aim and timing is so true it takes my breath away and I feel certain Mortain's hand guides my own.
Robin LaFevers
#48. It is best if you do not spend all your time wishing you were somewhere else.
Robin LaFevers
#49. It is rarely a lack of love that forces two hearts apart, but other obstacles.
Robin LaFevers
#51. Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours ...
R.L. LaFevers
#52. It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.
R.L. LaFevers
#53. The fault lies not with you she says this so gently it makes me want to cry. I have never shed a tear, not throughout all my father's beatings or guillo's mauling, but a few kind words from this women and it is all i can do not to bawl like a babe.
Robin LaFevers
#54. And there it is. The threat I have lived with my entire life. If I am not good enough, kind enough, thoughtful enough, obedient enough, I will be cast from my home like a stunted fish from a fisherman's net.
Robin LaFevers
#55. What good is fighting if what you are fighting for is lost?
Robin LaFevers
#56. You love me?"
"Yes, you great lummox. I love you."
He lets out a sigh. "Sweet Camulos! It's about time.
Robin LaFevers
#57. I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.'
'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say.
'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.
R.L. LaFevers
#58. Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.
R.L. LaFevers
#59. He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.
R.L. LaFevers
#60. And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am
Death's justice.
R.L. LaFevers
#61. I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."
"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.
Robin LaFevers
#62. Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.
R.L. LaFevers
#63. I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
R.L. LaFevers
#64. How do you not know the nature of the hellequin's hunt? Have you sprouted from the earth wholly formed, like some miraculous cabbage?
Robin LaFevers
#65. I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave."
I yawn. "So very long as that?"
When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.
R.L. LaFevers
#66. If Death could grant you a wish, you would use it for someone else? Trade your happiness for someone else's?
Robin LaFevers
#67. I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.
R.L. LaFevers
#68. He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?"
I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.
R.L. LaFevers
#69. You came to us a lump of clay, and we molded you into an instrument of Death.
Robin LaFevers
#70. The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
R.L. LaFevers
#71. What I feel is his need and desire and longing, crashing against me like waves against the shore, calling to those same unwanted feelings I hold for him. And always that inexplicable connection that draws me to him.
Robin LaFevers
#72. We cannot be held responsible for what our families do, especially when we have no way to control them.
Robin LaFevers
#73. Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.
Robin LaFevers
#75. Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.
Robin LaFevers
#76. You always hold a piece of yourself back, Annith. For all your love and affection and kindness, there is always a part of yourself that you withhold from others.
Robin LaFevers
#77. It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.
R.L. LaFevers
#78. I have avoided the fate my father planed for me, surely it is I who won not he.
Robin LaFevers
#79. In the distance a wolf howls. Let it come, I think. Beast will most likely simply howl back, and the creature will either turn tail and run or fall into line behind him, like the rest of us have.
R.L. LaFevers
#80. You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.
Robin LaFevers
#81. She carries nothing" he says, "but a small dagger and an even smaller heart.
Robin LaFevers
#82. I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?
R.L. LaFevers
#85. However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so - we help them on their way.
R.L. LaFevers
#87. I almost hope it is a mouth that opens directly to hell, for of a certainty, we could use the heat.
R.L. LaFevers
#89. We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.
Robin LaFevers
#90. I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.
R.L. LaFevers
#91. I will not let them take you alive." Of all the things he could have said, that is the one thing that comforts me the most. "Nor I you," I say around a strange lump that has formed in my throat.
Robin LaFevers
#92. Something has changed me, but it has also freed me.
Robin LaFevers
#93. Yes. I have see Him, but He is the god of Death, not some knight to be swooned over.
Robin LaFevers
#95. Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone here, I am not willing to poison them all. At least not yet.
Robin LaFevers
#96. Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.
R.L. LaFevers
#97. And I must remind myself that assassins should take no pleasure in their finery and frippery.
Robin LaFevers
#98. I will no longer sit and wait patiently for my happiness to grow like some budding fruit on the limbs of a tree, but will mold it and shape it with my own hands.
Robin LaFevers
#99. Do you need anything before I go?
I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
R.L. LaFevers
#100. The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
R.L. LaFevers
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