Top 140 K.J. Charles Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “They did not understand. They thought of Cyprian as a servant when he had been so much more. He.”

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

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103. “The more love you give, the more you are capable of giving. It’s only when you shut off the source that it dries up.”

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104. “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.”

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

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106. “I see. Things must be bad if you’re voluntarily telling me the truth.”

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107. “He wore spiked knuckledusters that got you an extra year of gaol time right off, and looked purely murderous.”

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108. “Right. Put some coffee on while I think about this. I’m in dire need.” Merrick gave him a look. “You can’t work the stove, can you?” “I’m the eighth Earl Crane and the twelfth Viscount Fortunegate. I don’t have to work the stove.” “Two extra names and you can’t lift your arms any more. Bloody lucky they didn’t make you a duke too or you’d forget how to brush your own teeth.”

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

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

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111. “You need to dress for your own body, not pretend you’ve someone else’s, don’t you think?”

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112. “Wednesday by Wednesday, week by week, I have become yours for the taking.”

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113. “He was an aggressive, forceful, noisy man who thrived on conflict, for whom divergent opinions were airy-fairy nonsense or weakness, and anyone else’s expertise was a threat.”

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

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

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116. “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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117. “I like the way he says ‘furthermore’,” Merrick observed quietly. “Cos you can tell he means ‘wankers’.”

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118. “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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119. “Of course I’ve got a conscience,” Jonah said. “He’s sitting right here next to me.”

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120. “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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121. “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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122. “Men could rant and rave all they chose; if a woman did the same, she showed herself a slave to her emotions.”

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123. “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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124. “Some people had strong views on attacking a man from behind. Well, Will did himself, those views being that it was an excellent idea, best done with a blade. He missed the Messer.”

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125. “When people are obliged to keep an eye out for threats, their eyes tend to be sharp. That’s what women’s intuition means, if you ask me: being unconsciously alert for dangerous men.”

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126. “This was the torment and insanity, the enjoyment of angels, when he was helpless in Silas’s hands. “Frighten me,” Dominic whispered.”

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127. “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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128. “Harry padded softly in. He was in linen shirt, breeches, and bare feet, the very model of a gentleman bent on criminal conversation, and the sight made Julius’s chest heave.”

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129. “I know I had to do it: that was why I did it. I don’t stab people by accident.”

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

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131. “Why do we count the cost of change, but not the cost of the world staying the same?”

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132. “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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133. “If you couldn’t have a thing without hurting someone who didn’t deserve it, you shouldn’t have it.”

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134. “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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135. “It does seem unfair that one should have to rethink one’s beliefs at the advanced age of thirty-seven.”

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “I am in the process of nailing Mr. Humphrey Griffin to the wall so thoroughly that future generations will mistake him for a tapestry,...”

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139. “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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140. “What I mean is, one can’t help one’s fears. The question isn’t if you’re a fellow who cries in the night before a big engagement – and I knew a damned brave man who did exactly that, regularly. It’s whether you pick yourself up the next day.”

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141. “It was hard to keep up the fight for the freedom of your fellow man when your fellow man was a bastard.”

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142. “You’re a fool, and I’m another. Between us, we barely make a village idiot.”

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143. “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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144. “But evidently something in the line of his mouth and the set of his shoulders made him seem the sort of man who hurt people, and there were men who liked to be hurt.”

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