The Spymaster's Lady (Spymasters, #1) QUOTES

1 " Do you know, when I am with you I am not afraid at all. It is a magic altogether curious that happens inside the heart. I wish I could take it with me when I leave.

It is sad, my Grey. We are constrained by the rules of this Game we play. There is not one little place under those rules for me to be with you happily. Or apart happily, which is what makes it so unfair.

I have discovered a curious fact about myself. An hour ago I was sure you were dead, and it hurt very much. Now you are alive, and it is only that I must leave you, and I find that even more painful. That is not at all logical.

Do you know the Symposium, Grey? The Symposium of Plato. [He] says that lovers are like two parts of an egg that fit together perfectly. Each half is made for the other, the single match to it. We are incomplete alone. Together, we are whole. All men are seeking that other half of themselves. Do you remember?

I think you are the other half of me. It was a great mix-up in heaven. A scandal. For you there was meant to be a pretty English schoolgirl in the city of Bath and for me some fine Italian pastry cook in Palermo. But the cradles were switched somehow, and it all ended up like this…of an impossibility beyond words.

I wish I had never met you. And in all my life I will not forget lying beside you, body to body, and wanting you. "

― Joanna Bourne , The Spymaster's Lady (Spymasters, #1)

3 " She wanted to hit him with something, not in a lethal manner, but hard. "

― Joanna Bourne , The Spymaster's Lady (Spymasters, #1)

5 " It was a woman who put that bullet in me. Did you know?”
“One cannot tell from looking at the wound, as it happens. "

― Joanna Bourne , The Spymaster's Lady (Spymasters, #1)

7 " I am very fond of pigeons. I admire of them that they are large and yet they do not continually bully the sparrows. They also keep their tongues within their teeth and do not argue politics at one continually through the day and night. Do not be the natural historian and tell me pigeons do not have teeth.'

'I would argue instead that pigeons do not have politics. "

― Joanna Bourne , The Spymaster's Lady (Spymasters, #1)