Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

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

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

Why do you keep saying incarnations like I’m some kind of god?” It wasn’t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn’t even know how ask them. “You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn’t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.” “What?!