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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1) QUOTES

Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1) QUOTES

1 " And he owned a lot of books, although just now and then, when it got dark and the shelves loomed over him, he got the feeling that they owned him. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

2 " What I say is, one can be as moral as one likes, but one should have the courtesy to do it in private, like any other bad habit "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

3 " Thank God they were British. He took a deep breath. “Cup of tea? "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

4 " I'd call you a whore but you're nothing so honest "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

5 " Why do we count the cost of change, but not the cost of the world staying the same? "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

6 " My dear chap, this is a bookshop. There’s never anywhere better to be. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

7 " He had no idea what civilians, or civilised people, would say in these circumstances. Thanks for that, old chap, much obliged, perhaps? Ought he apologise for coming in his mouth? Would this be a good moment to restart the conversation about where Kim had learned to use a knife? Thank God they were British. He took a deep breath. “Cup of tea? "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

8 " If you couldn’t have a thing without hurting someone who didn’t deserve it, you shouldn’t have it. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

9 " I volunteered to go kill men who I’d have had a drink with if I’d met them in a pub, and that wasn’t courage, just a twist in the head that went the other way round to shellshock. Calling it honour is putting ribbons on a pile of shit. It might look good, but it still stinks. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

10 " Will shrugged. “I’ll be voting Labour if this election comes about, and higher taxes and redistribution of wealth sound like good things to me. But I don’t like bombs, or blowing up civilians. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

11 " I know I had to do it: that was why I did it. I don’t stab people by accident. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

12 " callipygous "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

13 " He tried not to curse his uncle for administrative incompetence, but it was difficult. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

14 " This book contains references to a pandemic and the spread of infectious disease. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

15 " I got my medals for hand to hand fighting. It’s when you take the personal out of it—the barrage from miles away, the machine guns—that it becomes slaughter. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

16 " He’d been apprenticed to a joiner before the war, but that felt like decades ago: all he was good at now was killing people, which was discouraged. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

17 " Maybe Kim would, maybe he wouldn’t: Will could wait and see. In the meantime, he still had his right hand and someone to think about, plus a sense of exciting possibilities that he hadn’t felt in so long he’d almost forgotten what it was like. A fuck, a fight, a friendship: he’d take any or all. "

― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)