R.L. LaFevers Quotes
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Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours.
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The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
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... true faith never comes without anguish.
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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.
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If he is smart, he will run. He is not.
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Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
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Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.
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When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
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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.
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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.
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Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.
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You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.
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If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.
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He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.
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Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death’s handmaidens.
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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.
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... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.
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I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.
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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.
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So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people.
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Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
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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.
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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.
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When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it.
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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.
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This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
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I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.
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Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?
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There is no shame in scars, Ismae.
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His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal. If I cannot act - if I refuse to act - that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is to live. Fully and with my whole heart. With this knowledge comes a true understanding of all the gifts He has given me.
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