“Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination.""No, this is an execution.""The difference would be...?""Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.”
“The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination.”
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”
“An assassin's first murder is himself. He kills the man he was.”
“A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.”
“All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.”