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1 " Nobody had been more surprised than Jack to discover that when he was happy, he wanted to make others happy. What a soggy lot of rubbish, but there you had it. "
― Cat Sebastian , The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turners #1)
2 " Julian, who had spent the entirety of his adulthood studying the ways of the ton, still couldn't quite put his finger on what Courtenay was doing to exert this magnetic pull on their attention. . . . It had something to do with how, when he turned his his sea-green eyes on you and paid attention to what you were saying, you felt like you were at the center of the universe. He seem to genuinely like each person he spoke with. "
― Cat Sebastian , The Ruin of a Rake (The Turners #3)
3 " Julian felt about Courtenay’s looks the way radicals thought about money: that it was deeply unfair and problematic for one person to possess such a disproportionate share. "
4 " Caleb was being wilfully obtuse.Caleb hated when people were willfully obtuse. There were enough tragically stupid people in the world without having anyone indulge in recreational stupidity. "
― Cat Sebastian , Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots, #2)
5 " Honor was a luxury item, like hair pomade and snuff. Its only purpose was to show the world that you could afford to be impractical, that you had enough money to behave in a way that was compatible with some ludicrous code instead of acting out of self-preservation like the rest of humanity. "
6 " I used to think that revenge was about defending one’s honor, but it turns out that honor is just spite dressed up for Sunday. "
― Cat Sebastian , The Queer Principles of Kit Webb
7 " If the old lady who’s been giving me tea and biscuits for twenty-five years is a trained assassin, I suppose I might like assassins after all. I might have very positive and warm associations with assassins. "
― Cat Sebastian , Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1)
8 " That was how it was when your soul was in pieces and somebody else had one of them. Only when you were together would the pieces fit into place and become whole. "
9 " The man meant to stay here, to meddle and talk and distract; he planned to smell good and be handsome and obviously Lawrence should never have agreed to any of this. "
― Cat Sebastian , The Lawrence Browne Affair (The Turners #2)
10 " He tended to think that when the Bible condemned something practically everyone did, whether it be tossing oneself off or eating pork, there was likely some nuance that had been lost either to history or to translation. And then he didn’t think about it anymore. "
― Cat Sebastian , It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1)
11 " Even the absence of information was included: “Wraxhall. No debts, no secrets.” And “Servants overpaid,”followed, amazingly, by “Very friendly dog. "
12 " Percy realized he had had it all wrong when he told Kit that honor is just spite dressed up; spite was honor when it was the only weapon you had against someone more powerful. "
13 " He couldn't be serious and stern with a man who had ducklings in his hair, or who talked to baby birds like they were guests at a tea party, or who seemed to dearly want Phillip to smile. "
14 " He took hold of Jack’s collar and bent down for a kiss. With each stroke of his tongue he thought, This is ours. It wasn’t something he was doing to Jack, or Jack was doing to him. Neither of them owned it. It was theirs. This was what he had wanted; as much as the physical pleasure he wanted the sense of shared desire, mutual longing. "
15 " Missing you is profoundly inconvenient, I’ll have you know. I have things to do and places to be, and all the while I’ll feel like I’ve mislaid a piece of my soul and I won’t get it back until I see you again. That can’t be normal. "
16 " When you smile I want to do awful things to you,” Oliver said, leering wolfishly.“A lucky coincidence, because when I’m smiling it’s because I’m thinking of you doing filthy things to me.” Jack grinned back at him. "
17 " You’re mine,” Jack repeated, dusting kisses along Oliver’s jaw. “I’ve tried being without you, and it’s not any good, Oliver.”“It really isn’t,” Oliver agreed. “Let’s not do that again.”“Never again. "
18 " The lady obviously spent her days reading, napping, and eating biscuits. He didn’t know whether to be disgustedor jealous. "
19 " So far, the man had vetoed every one of Oliver’s suggestions, calling them too shabby, too remote, too vulgar,too small. Jack, Oliver was delighted to discover, was a bit of a snob. "
20 " All this fuss about a couple of small explosions. "
