“In silence lies safety.” SilenceSafety Book:Codename Villanelle: short story Source: Codename Villanelle: short story
“Oxana had never felt the slightest need to be liked, but it gave her profound satisfaction to be desired.” LoveObsessionToxicVillanelleKilling EveVillaneve Book:Codename Villanelle Source: Codename Villanelle
“With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an academic, or an assistant in the better sort of a bookshop. But there's something about her—a stillness, a fixity of gaze—that tells another story.” MoodLolMeVillanelleKilling EveEve Polastri Book:Codename Villanelle Source: Codename Villanelle
“Tenderness, sympathy, distress, guilt, shock, sadness… Villanelle has never actually experienced any such emotions, but she can simulate them all.” VillanelleKilling Eve Book:Codename Villanelle Source: Codename Villanelle
“Sex, for her, offers only fleeting physical satisfaction. What she finds much more exciting is to look into another person’s eyes and to know, like a cobra swaying in front of its hypnotised prey, that she is in absolute control. But that game gets boring, too. People capitulate so easily.” VillanelleKilling Eve Book:Codename Villanelle Source: Codename Villanelle
“She’s taken to pacing mutely around the flat in the evenings, vodka tonic in hand, like an alcoholic ghost.” CopingKilling EveEve Polastri Book:Codename Villanelle Source: Codename Villanelle