The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

Your Majesty, ” Durzo said gravely. “A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.” - Durzo Blint

Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.

...escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.

I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

In each mirror, each moment A new face reveals His beauty.

A smile can open a heart quicker than a key can open a door.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon