“Alan was expecting sarcasm. Something to hurt. Jack was very good at that, and Alan had just poked him in a piece of vulnerable history. But Jack said, almost roughly, ‘I thought that you were one of the loveliest things I’d ever seen. And that you’d stolen my best cufflinks.”

“Alan was expecting sarcasm. Something to hurt. Jack was very good at that, and Alan had just poked him in a piece of vulnerable history. But Jack said, almost roughly, ‘I thought that you were one of the loveliest things I’d ever seen. And that you’d stolen my best cufflinks.”

— Freya Marske