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1 " There really were no chains like the ones in your head. "
― K.J. Charles , A Seditious Affair (Society of Gentlemen, #2)
2 " I love you dearly, my friend. I always will, but even without my tastes, I think we would not have grown well together. The fact is, you want an ally. I prefer a challenge. You want agreement; I want contraries. I want Silas. "
3 " Come to bed with me, you blasted radical. Bring me your revolution. "
4 " It was hard to keep up the fight for the freedom of your fellow man when your fellow man was a bastard. "
5 " Aye, duty. You do yours and I do mine. Only, my duty, as I see it, is to tell people there’s a better way than tyranny and unjust law. And yours is to uphold the law when you ain’t too busy breaking it bent over in a whorehouse. "
6 " This was the torment and insanity, the enjoyment of angels, when he was helpless in Silas’s hands. “Frighten me,” Dominic whispered. "
7 " Wednesday by Wednesday, week by week, I have become yours for the taking. "
8 " 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. "
9 " It does seem unfair that one should have to rethink one’s beliefs at the advanced age of thirty-seven. "
10 " I have been coming to love you for a long time, you damned seditious brute, as I almost found the courage to tell you earlier. Wednesday by Wednesday, week by week, I have loved you. "
11 " He feared in his bones that he’d give in if Dom asked, and Dom knew it and didn’t ask. Silas loved him more for that, with a heart so poorly suited and so unaccustomed to love that he felt it might burst its banks like one of London’s choked, fetid rivers. "
12 " So what I mean is, this won’t make me useless, unless I let it. Reform "