The Sugared Game
K.J. Charles
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Scars are always beautiful. They're proof we lived.”
“He wished he had words for what Kim was, the aching pain and the starlight, the beauty and the ugliness.”
“You need to dress for your own body, not pretend you’ve someone else’s, don’t you think?”
“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.”
“I know you’ve thought about this,” Will said. “But there are men in the world who aren’t queer or arseholes. Have you considered marrying one of them instead?”
“Rubbish," he said. "Firstly, stop talking as if you did anything but what I wanted. Secondly--well, you're a slippery bastard, granted. You've made plenty of mistakes and done a lot of bad things and told an incredible number of lies. You're an utter shit. Sorry, what was I saying? I got carried away.”
“Our will and fates do so contrary run.”
“He did want to live decently, in theory. He had always expected a respectable life with the trappings of church, children, brass doorstep, vegetable plot, just as his mother had dreamed of for him. Those were things any man, or most, would want to have. The blood-red uncivilised streak of his nature that had blossomed in the war didn’t want them. That streak wanted someone who would ask him to infiltrate night-clubs and kick people’s heads in. That streak wanted Kim, who offered none of the things that appealed to Will’s respectable ambitions and everything that fed the wolf.”
“talked with enthusiasm about setting up a British Cheka.”
“a mess of frottage.”
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