Quote by Mercedes Lackey

“We’ll see what he says when I stab him with my stiletto.”

— Victoria Ashley

“My would-be assassin was a very good shot.”

— Benedict Jacka

“The assassin crouched atop one of the shorter, thicker pillars, his body a curve of taut muscles beneath nondescript gray clothes. He looked more…

— Leah Cypess

“But I'd take a slashed throat over a broken neck any day. At least that way I'd get to bleed all over his shoes.…

— Rachel Vincent

“But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“They tried to pierce your heart with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound. If they had succeeded, you would have become like they…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Along the way, he followed his own advice and snagged a pair of mismatched daggers from the corpses of fallen archers. They weren’t as…

— Drew Hayes

“You look as if you're planning my untimely death." [...] "You have a problem though—I'm your top assassin by far, and I don't work…

— Ocotillo

“I kill on order. I am everyone's assassin. I belong to no one but the grim reaper herself.”

— Katherine Ewell

“When he stopped hitting me and seized my wrists, I darted my head in and bit his hand as hard as I could. He…

— Robin Hobb

“I'm not fooled, assassin. You may think you are removed from us—that you have come to terms with your own mortality—but I still had…

— T.L. Shreffler

“Right now, me getting killed would be redundant. ... You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late. ...…

— Chuck Palahniuk