"He gasped for breath and more blood flowed from his mouth.“A pity,really.In another world,we might even have been...friends.”"
"He seeks your approval.Your attention.These outbursts of his are a result of insecurities borne of a sense of inadequacy.He speaks of you fondly and often,and expresses a desire to be closer to you.So,if he is loud and foul and angry,I believe it is simply because he wants to be noticed.He wants to "
"“That is a last souvenir from an old...friend”"
"Ezio turned to see a broad-shouldered man of similar height to his own but perhaps ten or fifteen years older than he was. Over his head he wore a hood not unlike Ezio's, which partly obscured his face, but under it Ezio could make out two piercing violet eyes which shone with a strange power, borin"
"A gaggle of courtesans slipped smilingly past Ezio into the inner room, at the centre of which he could see a truly massive bed, by whose side was a singular contraption like a couch, but with pulleys and belts, and chains. It reminded him of something out of Leonardo's workshop, but he couldn't ima"
"Mario and Machiavelli had turned away, their eyes screwed up, their hands covering their heads in fear or pain."
"'You've done well, Ezio,' Paola told him, as they waited with La Volpe and Machiavelli before the gates of the San Marco complex, together with a large, expectant and unruly crowd gathered from the free districts. 'Thank you. But what happens now?' 'Watch,' said Machiavelli. With a loud crash a door"