--- title: "9 Asked Kill Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Asked Kill quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Asked Kill sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/ilona-andrews-150_asked_how-do-we-get-out-of-this-circle-i-asked_1227477.png" --- > [“How do we get out of this circle?" I asked him. "We kill him," he said. "Good. Let's kill him and go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilona-andrews/how-do-we-get-out-of-this-circle-i-asked-him-we-kill-him-he-said-good/) [Ilona Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilona-andrews/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/ilona-andrews-150_asked_how-do-we-get-out-of-this-circle-i-asked_1227477.png) > [She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-picoult/she-had-loved-him-he-knew-this-he-had-never-doubted-it-but-she-had/) [Jodi Picoult](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-picoult/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/jodi-picoult-45_burden_she-had-loved-him-he-knew-this-he-had-ne_1919193.jpg) > [“The Nightlord cannot be controlled, child. He can only be unleashed. And you asked him not to kill.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-k-jemisin/the-nightlord-cannot-be-controlled-child-he-can-only-be-unleashed-and/) [N.K. Jemisin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-k-jemisin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/n-k-jemisin-1466_children_the-nightlord-cannot-be-controlled-child_1626061.png) > [“Why did you come here?' Gretchen asked. 'To kill you,' Archie said. 'How badly do you want it?' 'Pretty badly,' Archie said.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chelsea-cain/why-did-you-come-here-gretchen-asked-to-kill-you-archie-said-how/) [Chelsea Cain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chelsea-cain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d68/chelsea-cain-7895_asked-kill_why-did-you-come-here-gretchen-asked-to_1398105.png) > [“He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-balogh/he-asked-me-not-to-kill-myself-asked-not-told-his-wife-had-done-that/) [Mary Balogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-balogh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/840/mary-balogh-914_left-behind_he-asked-me-not-to-kill-myself-asked-not_280731.jpg) > [I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miranda-july/i-asked-myself-if-i-would-kill-my-parents-to-save-his-life-a-question/) [Miranda July](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miranda-july/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/miranda-july-1600_answers_i-asked-myself-if-i-would-kill-my-parent_1183970.jpg) > [I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-joffe/i-cannot-forget-a-conversation-that-i-had-with-an-elderly-couple-from/) [Roland Joffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-joffe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/roland-joffe-20044_communication_i-cannot-forget-a-conversation-that-i-ha_3119053.jpg) > [“Finally, and definitely the coolest part, is that you get a card from the State Department that gives you diplomatic immunity. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-goff/finally-and-definitely-the-coolest-part-is-that-you-get-a-card-from/) [Bob Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-goff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/bob-goff-1182_diplomatic_finally-and-definitely-the-coolest-part_885271.png) > [“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/omar-el-akkad/there-is-an-impulse-in-moments-like-this-to-appeal-to-self-interest/) [Omar El Akkad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/omar-el-akkad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/omar-el-akkad-14660_conscience_there-is-an-impulse-in-moments-like-this_1708064.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asked-kill/#itemlist", "name": "Asked Kill Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“How do we get out of this circle?\" I asked him. \"We kill him,\" he said. \"Good. 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To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness? 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