Sicarius's Quotes

#1. A hint of annoyance hardened Sicarius's dark eyes, and Books imagined him thinking, I can't leave for five minutes without you getting into trouble ...

Lindsay Buroker

#2. This ain't Halloween." he said.
"What's that mean?"
"Means I ain't sharin' my candy.

Jane Seville

#3. We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

Manmohan Singh

#4. A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.

Roseville Nidea

#5. Sicarius had the personality of a particularly bland, pointy stick.

Lindsay Buroker

#6. Why can't she see that no two people
are exactly alike? Our hearts and minds
are all different.
Only our dreams share
this same desperate need
to rise
and soar...

Margarita Engle

#7. I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.

Nalini Singh

#8. You're not - " "Fast enough? Strong enough? Agile enough?" She did not necessarily disagree, but she wanted him to have faith she could do this. "Expendable," Sicarius said.

Lindsay Buroker

#9. Sicarius wore his usual guess-my-thoughts-if-you-can-mask, though she sensed he did not approve.

Lindsay Buroker

#10. Some men brought women flowers. Sicarius chose not to kill people. The latter seemed a tad more momentous.

Lindsay Buroker

#11. I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

Charles Kuralt

#12. Then I guess Sicarius will have to follow you around all night, hovering over your shoulder while you eat. Breathing down your neck. Sharing your salad. Hogging your croutons.

Lindsay Buroker

#13. Nothing in the world...is so powerful as an idea that tells people exactly what they want to hear.

Cecil Adams

#14. Are you sure you're not looking for an excuse to stay in the smokestack with me?"
"If we attempt to check on the weapons now, in daylight, we may be spotted."
"Don't worry. You don't have to say it. I know." Amarante patted him on the chest. "It was good for me too.

Lindsay Buroker

#15. I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.

Toba Beta

#16. Heal her." Sicarius forced Akstyr to his knees at Amaranthe's side. Sicarius did not say "or else." He did not have to. The threat hung in the air, as dense as the fog.

Lindsay Buroker

#17. Well, I'm freezing. Either one of us is going to have to check or we'll have to start cuddling."
Sicarius climbed the ladder.
"There's something wrong with a man who chooses to face death over cuddling with a woman.

Lindsay Buroker

#18. She let Sicarius lead since he had that knack for getting people to move out of his way without doing anything. Amaranthe, on the other hand, received elbows in the ribs or suggestive jostles from drunken men. Maybe she should try wearing all black and glaring more often.

Lindsay Buroker

#19. The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

Ovid

#20. Yes," Sicarius said. "We must act alone. And soon. You may be dead by morning."
"Have I mentioned how endearing your bluntness is?

Lindsay Buroker

#21. Somehow she could not see Sicarius cuddling to share body heat. He would probably suggest pushups to stay warm.

Lindsay Buroker

#22. An explanation." Sicarius regarded her intently. "Clarify the situation with the emperor. I could not understand the incoherent jumble you spit out before falling unconscious.

Lindsay Buroker

#23. Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

Otto Penzler

#24. It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology. On

Diane Ackerman

#25. Only Sicarius would bring all his weapons to the smooching corner of the Imperial Gardens.

Lindsay Buroker

#26. One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#27. A realization came to Books in that moment, one that shook his beliefs even more than when he had learned magic existed: Sicarius cared.

Lindsay Buroker

#28. I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

Victoria Justice

#29. I hope one day I can come into a training camp and not say someone is out for the season.

Nate McMillan

#30. Of course, it'll be up to you to convince Ridgecrest that Sespian is the candidate he wants to side with," Amaranthe said.
"Me," Sicarius stated at the same time as Maldynado asked, "Him?"
"You three. As a group."
"That'll be a unique conversation," Yara said.

Lindsay Buroker

#31. Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter ... a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

Shelley K. Wall

#32. Someone's coming," Sicarius said. "They heard we have raccoon vomit for breakfast," Akstyr muttered.

Lindsay Buroker

#33. Amaranthe decided not to explain that it hadn't been a guess, that Sicarius reserved his ultra icy glare for those who threatened him, those who spoke disrespectfully about his son, and those who dared invite Amaranthe to picnic dinners in the park.

Lindsay Buroker

#34. A soft knock sounded. Amaranthe feared Sicarius had come to collect her for another round of training, but he didn't usually bother knocking. Or being constrained by door locks.

Lindsay Buroker

#35. Sicarius, as usual, regarded her with the blandness of a particularly featureless rock, then walked away.

Lindsay Buroker

#36. That must be why we get along so fabulously," Amaranthe said. "You being the less talkative sort and me being happy to fill in the awkward silences with ... awkward un-silences." Sicarius said nothing. "Yes, just like that.

Lindsay Buroker

#37. Why, Sicarius, is it possible you have a playful side beneath your razor-edged knives, severe black clothing and humourless glares?

Lindsay Buroker