The power of words...

I looked around. It's quite something, really watching a place that's finally found its feet.'
'Feet awash in the blood of others, I'm afraid.'
'Ah, that's a story old as time itself, and one that is not likely to change. We're cruel and desperate creatures, set in our conquering ways. The Saxons and the Franks. The Ottomans and Safavids. I could go on for hours. The whole human history is but a series of subjugations.'
'I pray one day we rise above it,' replied Charles earnestly.
'While you pray, I'll act. We'll see who finds success first, hmm?'
'It was an expression,'he said with a wounded edge to his voice.
'Aye. And a dangerous one. Words have power. Wield them wisely.' (pag. 215)

(Haytham Kenway & Charles Lee)

(Oliver Bowden - " Assasin's Creed - Forsaken")

Goodbye Letter

When I was a young man, I had liberty,but did not see it; I had time, but did not know it; and I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, in the twilight of my life, this understanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty and time, once so much at my disposal, are the fuels that drive me forward. Love, most especially, my dearest, for you, our children, our brothers and sisters... and for the vast and wonderful world that gave us life and keeps us guessing. With endless affection, my Sofia, I am forever yours.

Ezio Auditore

(pag. 502)


(Oliver Bowden - " Assasin's Creed - Revelations")

Hiding in plain sight...

Father used to say,'To see differently, we must think differently,'and it sounds stupid, and you might laugh, or I might look back on this in years to come and laugh myself, but at times it felt as though I could feel my brain actually expand to look at the world in Father's way. He had a way of looking at the world that nobody else had, so it seemed; a way of looking at the world that challenged the very idea of truth.
Of course, I questioned Old Mr Fayling. I challenged him one day, during Scriptures, and earned myself a whack across the knuckles with his cane, along with the promise that he would be informing my father, which he did. Later, Father took me into his study and, after closing the door, grinned and tapped the side of his nose, 'It's often best, Haytham, to keep your thoughts to yourself. Hide in plain sight.' (pag. 34)

(Haytham Kenway & Edward Kenway)

(Oliver Bowden - " Assasin's Creed - Forsaken")

Disease

”More than anything they feared disease. I suppose because you cannot reason with disease; you can't bribe it or take arms against it, and it respects neither wealth nor standing. It is an implacable foe.
And of course it attacks without warning.” (pag. 6)

(Haytham Kenway)

(Oliver Bowden - " Assasin's Creed - Forsaken")

Life...books

She looked at him.'These last few months - almost a year now - I have learned that there is life outside books.'
'All life is outside books.'
'Spoken like a true scholar!'
'Life enters books. It isn't the other way round.' (pag. 454)

(Sofia Sartor&Ezio Auditore)


(Oliver Bowden - " Assasin's Creed - Revelations")

Keeping the balance...

"Mark this and remember. It is never your choice to give up the fight for justice. Even when it seems that it can never be won, that all hope is lost, the fight, the fight ensures the survival of justice, the survival of the world. You live balanced on the edge of a cliff, you cannot help that. Your job is to ensure that the balance never tips too far to the wrong side. And there is one more thing you can do which will make certain that it never does: you can love." (pag. 446)

(Tinia)

(Oliver Bowden - " Assasin's Creed - Revelations")

Truth

'That is just further evidence of his decline!To take up arms against his own son? It's shameful.'
'Do not bend the truth to match the contours of your passion, efendim,'the fourth man rebuked him.'It was Selim, after all, who attacked our Sultan first.' (pag. 286-287)

(Talk among Janissaries)

(Oliver Bowden - " Assasin's Creed - Revelations")