Top 160 K.J. Charles Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Your friends arrived like a pair of very badly cast fairy godmothers and pulled my feet out of the fire on your behalf.”

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102. “You said what you wanted, that’s all, and since it was very easy for me to get what I wanted while giving you what you wanted –.”

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103. “Well, God knows what you used to be, then, because you’re built like a brick shithouse and hung like a horse.”

— K.J. Charles

104. “We can all kill people. I could have put a pillow over your face while you slept at any time in the last twenty years, and I’m struggling to recall why I haven’t.”

— K.J. Charles

105. “Will shrugged. “I’ll be voting Labour if this election comes about, and higher taxes and redistribution of wealth sound like good things to me. But I don’t like bombs, or blowing up civilians.”

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106. “Nobody would believe that Richard left evening pleasures promptly because it gave him longer in his valet’s company, that he took such care over his clothing because it made two hours’ dressing with Cyprian unexceptional. That he would rather talk to a liveried servant than to any of the gentlemen who were his closest friends.”

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107. “Did anyone wonder if someone hit his head for him?”

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108. “Was he truly the only man who noticed Hart’s kindness, and passion, and thighs?”

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109. “I am Jonah, therefore I love Ben.”

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110. “He looked smart and well groomed and rich, and his eyes were as raw and lonely and full of wishes as Will felt.”

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111. “I didn’t do anything.” “You stayed,” Kim said. “You loved me. You watched me, which obliged me to behave as the man I’d like to be, rather than the less impressive one I often am. I don’t like it when you’re not there either, Will. I’m better with you.”

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112. “He was an excellent swordsman, sported a waxed moustache that was in my opinion a greater crime than any he committed with the blade, and had no sense of humour, but he was tolerable.”

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113. “His shirtsleeves were rolled up against the heat, baring forearms that Theo wanted, suddenly and urgently, to squeeze between his thighs.”

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114. “I love you,” Robin said. “I’ve been in love with you for I don’t know how long. Since – ” “ – the fishpond – ” “ – yes, the fishpond, and don’t finish my sentences just because you know what I’m going to say.”

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115. “Cyprian didn’t shrug – a servant of his calibre would never do such a thing – but his entire demeanor implied a shrug.”

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116. “It’s one of your most attractive qualities, you know, you never snore. Rare ad precious and – his voice dropped, though they were alone on the platform – sadly underrated in a bed partner.”

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117. “Who the hell came armed to rob a bookshop?”

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118. “Kim breathed out, long and slow. “I have wondered where you were hiding the damage. First things first: forget what I said. I shouldn’t have asked and I’m sorry. You came through a meat grinder alive and won medals on the way. You ‘just got on’ in order to survive hell. If that’s what you have to keep doing, then in God’s name keep doing it, at least until you don’t need to any more.”

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119. “People create poetry and mustard gas. We invent gods and monsters and gods that might as well be monsters. We act with extraordinary grace and unfathomable cruelty. We’re so terribly intelligent, and dreadfully easy to fool.”

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120. “Alec, my sweet, you trampled me, Temp, and your family underfoot, and no less effectively because you did it in velvet slippers. I’m genuinely impressed.”

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121. “Talk about making a profit on a job. I stole you, and I’m keeping you.”

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

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123. “I love you,” Julius observed at last. “To a degree that frankly startles me.”

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124. “If Guy had been asked at any point in his entire adult life prior to this week how he might envisage himself speaking to Sir Philip Rookwood, “planning illicit amours” would have been the least likely answer imaginable, matched only in its implausibility by “up a tree”.”

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125. “But it could ruin us. But I could lose you, because your position will be intolerable, and I don’t want to lose you. I don’t want to do without you; I don’t want you to leave me. I can’t stop you, of course, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try. I’ll beg if I have to, and won’t that embarrass us both. I want a future with you.”

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126. “Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.”

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127. “He wished he had words for what Kim was, the aching pain and the starlight, the beauty and the ugliness.”

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128. “If it helps,” James said, “most of the underworld is terrified of you. I certainly am.”

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129. “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.”

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130. “Is there anything more terrifying than getting what you hope for?”

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131. “He had no idea if he was being served or mastered now. Both, or neither, it didn’t matter.”

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132. “The silky dressing gown was open, revealing his smooth, bare chest and, Curtis couldn’t but notice, dark nipples, one of which – oh, good God – was pierced with a silver ring.”

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133. “Well, nothing really. That’s the point, isn’t it? I spend so long worrying about what might happen because I’m afraid of the worst, but fearing one will be unhappy later shouldn’t stop one being happy now, should it?”

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134. “They did not understand. They thought of Cyprian as a servant when he had been so much more. He.”

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135. “Because that’s how life tends to work in all its aspects. We try things out, and make mistakes, and recover, and learn from our experiences.”

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136. “What’s it to me which rich man runs the country?”

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137. “My Doomsday. The end of my world.”

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138. “You’re so busy torturing yourself for your sins, you don’t even notice how much you’re hurting other people.”

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139. “It is my aim, and would be my privilege, to ruin you for all others for a very long time to come.”

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140. “I give him the truth. I don’t ask for his; I give him mine. The shames the fears, the desires. I have made myself vulnerable to him, I have put my soul in his hands, and he has cherished it.”

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141. “She’d forgotten how overwhelming he could be in his desires, and not just physical ones. When James wanted, he did so powerfully. It was overpowering to be wanted this much.”

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142. “One of Miss Marianne Loxleigh’s most admired features, at least by the kind of people who catalogued beauty rather than reacting to it, was her noble and lofty forehead. She usually emphasised it in the way she dressed her hair. Currently she was emphasising it by banging it on the breakfast table.”

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143. “But there was still a kernel of him that was a desperate, lost, hungry thing, and no matter how hard he tried to starve it out, it was always there, poking its head out at a sniff of affection, howling for more, making him hopeful and vulnerable and stupid.”

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144. “I’ve always considered you an immovable object – you do such a good impression of one – but of course you’re not. You’re a man like the rest of us, albeit gloriously strong and gloriously solid, but perhaps the solidity comes at the expense of flexibility. That’s physics for you. Maybe you need to be a bit less strong and a bit more vulnerable for a while and see what happens. Good Lord, I felt you twitch there. You can be vulnerable if you want, my love. You aren’t at war any more.”

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145. “But Kim had wanted him anyway, and he’d fought accordingly, until he got it through Will’s thick skull that it was time to stop seeing where they went and start heading there on purpose.”

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146. “He’d spent his life carefully not looking into an abyss of rage like the pit of hellfire he’d so often been told awaited pagans, because if he ever really looked, he feared he might be angry forever.”

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147. “Kim jammed his hands in his pockets with the sort of jerky movement that suggested he wanted to punch a wall, or kick furniture. Will had always considered himself the furniture-kicker of the two of them.”

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148. “I have no quarrel with democrats in principle, except that they are as much frauds and liars as the rest. It is often said that mankind will not be free till the last king is strangled with the guts of the last priest; if you ask me, the man who ordered the strangling would promptly step forth to proclaim himself Lord Protector, and it would all begin again.”

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149. “After a few years in the grave, the baronet and the pauper look very much the same.”

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150. “I like you, Hart. You might try believing that, and if you can’t, you’re a fool to consort with me at all. Think about it and make your decision. But don’t shout at me because you’re afraid.”

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