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“I know. Ah, hell. Do what you think best, Kim. It's not the decision I'd make, but I'm not you. So you do whatever and I'll back you up, and if it’s a disaster we’ll have learned something.” “Won’t we just.” Kim reached across the table for Will’s hand. “Thank you.”

Love Trust Respect Disaster

Book:Subtle Blood

Source: Subtle Blood

“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.”

Feelings Human Nature Hurting

Book:The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

Source: The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

“Libra smiled. It gave Will the impression he'd sent off a postal order for a booklet on Smiling for Beginners.”

Smiling Smiles Character Description

Book:Slippery Creatures

Source: Slippery Creatures

“I like to make you know your master,” Crane said. “It's only fair. The rest of the time you've got me so thoroughly enslaved, I might as well be wearing a collar with your name on it.”

Sweet Touching Gay Romance

Book:A Case of Possession

Source: A Case of Possession

“Kim was taking up an alarming amount of space in his mind. If he was thinking this much about a woman, he’d have no trouble finding a name for it”

Love Relationship Lgbtq Mlm

Book:The Sugared Game

Source: The Sugared Game

“He had rid my inherited house of a lustful ghost, opened my eyes to a concealed world of strange forces and arcane knowledge, and buggered me twice.”

Busy Humourous Caldwell Feximal

Book:The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

Source: The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

“Goodnight, sweet schoolmaster. It's been a pleasure." On which he walked out, arse-naked, carrying his clothes under his arm and his boots by the heels so as not to mar their leather with thumbprints. I lay back on my bed and stared at the ceiling. A moment later the door reopened and Hentzau stuck his head in. "Are you going to tell me what you were up to that night? I meant to seduce it out of you, but I forgot.”

Seduction

Book:The Henchmen of Zenda

Source: The Henchmen of Zenda

“Britain was full of men like him, trying to find something to do in a country that had managed perfectly well without them.”

Men War Post War Post War Britain

Book:Slippery Creatures

Source: Slippery Creatures

“You can be vulnerable if you want, my love. You aren't at war any more.”

Love War Romance Trauma Vulnerability

Book:Subtle Blood

Source: Subtle Blood

“He was quite belligerent on the subject of your well-being—in fact, positively threatening as to what might happen if I laid a finger on you. It was like being savaged by an Angora rabbit.”

Quip Droll

Book:Masters in This Hall

Source: Masters in This Hall

“All his tangles were tugging tighter, and he couldn’t blame anyone but himself”

Love Emotions

Book:The Sugared Game

Source: The Sugared Game

“It’s not your fault in the slightest,” Will said strongly, then was forced to add, “Just goes to show, there’s a first time for everything.”

Funny Humour

Book:Subtle Blood

Source: Subtle Blood

“He was watching me under those drooping lids, with need and satisfaction too, much as if he imagined he had the whip hand of me now. That was his youth showing, the peculiar conviction that a hard prick is a source of power rather than a vulnerability, not to say a weakness.”

Sex Power Lovers

Book:The Henchmen of Zenda

Source: The Henchmen of Zenda

“You’re not doing this for smiles, Swann, he told himself. You don’t want his smiles. But still he found he was grinning helplessly back”

Love Happiness Romance Smiling

Book:Wanted, A Gentleman

Source: Wanted, A Gentleman

“He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed.”

Hope Depression Mental Health Depair Lord Crane

Book:The Magpie Lord

Source: The Magpie Lord

“In writing Simon's stories, I have written myself out of my own life.”

Writing Caldwell Feximal

Book:The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

Source: The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

“Aristocracy means ‘rule of the best’, and I can’t think of any company in which Chingford would be counted as best, including the average gaol. Yet the hereditary principle demands we grant power, authority, and vast swathes of land to a man who couldn’t run a whelk stall if you gave him a copy of How To Run A Whelk Stall with corners turned down to mark the good bits.”

Aristocracy Character Description Whelks

Book:Subtle Blood

Source: Subtle Blood

“There really were no chains like the ones in your head.”

Mindgames Cruel To Be Kind

Book:A Seditious Affair

Source: A Seditious Affair

“When I have you, sweet boy, it will be because you want me to. Not against your better judgment, not in spite of my surname, and definitely not to annoy your aunt." Stephen went red, but his voice was defiant. "Well, what was that, then?" Crane shrugged. "You seemed tense.”

Rake Seductiveness After Glow

Book:The Magpie Lord

Source: The Magpie Lord

“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”

Omgomgomgomgomg

Book:The Magpie Lord

Source: The Magpie Lord

“It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque.”

Melancholy Futility Moodiness

Book:The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

Source: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

“It was that once upon a time the world had been full of possibility and excitement and wonder, and now it held difficulty and years of toil to come, and defeat after inevitable defeat. And yet here they were, Vikram and Gil, once again making themselves a space in which they could, perhaps, be happy.”

Love Happiness Time

Author:K.J. Charles

“Have you seen the mummies at the British Museum?” “The Egyptian ones? No, not yet. But they have a similar thing in China.” “Did you ever imagine if they started moving? Withered hands reaching towards you and sunken eyes staring?” “I didn’t, but now I know what I’ll be dreaming about tonight.”

Creepy Snarky Banter

Book:The Magpie Lord

Source: The Magpie Lord

“Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.” Crane grinned at him. “One was in absentia. One wasn’t, and I spent three days in a condemned cell. I can’t recommend the experience.” “And—did you say a smuggler?” “That was what the death sentences were for.”

Humor Funny Humour Dark Humor Smugglers Kj Charles Death Sentences The Magpie Lord

Book:The Magpie Lord

Source: The Magpie Lord

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