Everywhere I walked my fate walked with me, sewn to my feet with red thread. All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.”
-- Narrator (Yael) (Part 1 paragraph 2)

Importance: In this quote, Yael thought about how her life and the direction it would take had already been determined before she was ever born. She believed there was nothing that a person could do to change the outcome that fate had laid out for him.

He was part of a secret group, men who carried the curled dagger of the Sicarii, Zealots who hid sharp knives in their cloaks which they used to punish those who refused to fight Rome, especially the priests who accepted the legion’s sacrifices and their favor at the Temple.”
-- Narrator (Yael) (Part 1 paragraph 2)

Importance: Yael’s father, Yosef bar Elhanan, was an assassin who worked as part of a group of religious...