“Heroine: "You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves?"
Hero: "I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you so long as I do.”
Source: Fever
“You tried to strangle my lady to death, and her man isn’t happy.”
Source: The Smitten Sky: An Enemies to Lovers Dark Fantasy Romance
“Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.”
Source: The Story of the Lost Child
“I summon it, and it returns to me, a slightly coarse, dusty, but strong and pleasant smell, reminescent of touching rough sackcloth, and its borders on the memory of the feel of his skin, his flowing locks, his thick mustache that rubbed against the skin of my cheek and gave me a pleasant feeling, like being in a warm, dark old kitchen on a winter day. p.34”
“The smell of my uncle's enormous library would accompany me all the days of my life: the dusty, enticing odor of seven hidden wisdoms, the smell of a silent, secluded life devoted to scholarship, the life of a secretive hermit, the severe silence of ghost billowing up from the deepest wells of knowledge, the whisper of dead sages, outpouring of secret thoughts of long-buried authors, the cold caress of the desires of preceding generations. p.47-48”
“We're gonna be the best ferret daddies!”
Source: Not Like Other Boys
“[S]he takes a killer. Sometimes she takes two, never more than two, because some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad.”
Source: Room
“It is sometimes dangerous to have too much merit.”
Source: The Love Letters Of Abelard And Heloise: Translated From The Original Latin And Now Reprinted From The Edition Of 1722: Together With A Brief Account Of Their Lives And Work By Ralph Seymour
“For Tom, she was a bit like the dishes at the food joint next door: huge plates full of flavour and tasting them, you would start hungering for more, but too much of them would affect your stomach. It can't really cope if you get them more often than once a month.
~ As the moon began to rust”
“Nothing’s further from the truth; it was just a line to hook you”
Source: The Polymorph