Kelly Zekas > Quotes

“Why don’t—” He stopped abruptly and took a breath. “Normally I’m good at being polite, but with you, I have to try very hard.”

“Were you trying very hard the two times you’ve compared me to a prostitute today?”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“When one door closes, another slightly more inconvenient, out-of-the-way one opens.”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“Please wait for me, I’ll be home shortly. Feel free to save Robert’s life if you’re bored.”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“Excuses are nothing more than neatly packaged reports on the messy, unknowable truth”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“We do not remain the same each minute to the next. Every word you hear, every sight you see, every smell, every thought you have, every moment-it all changes you. We keep putting on mask after mask, layers over layers. That's how one grows.”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“I could safely say that this was the oddest situation I had ever been in: trying to use a magical power to heal a strange, half-naked man in his bedroom.”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“My lips had never been so alive, and I was absurdly aware that my body both shivered from his touch and burned with embarrassment. My brain refused to work, and all my mouth could form was, “Mr. Braddock, W-w-why—”

“Why would you do that to avoid your suitor?” His voice was grave, breath broken, and . . . and he could not be serious.”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“A hobby is an activity done at one's leisure - an occupation is done at another's. Since nurses are called upon at all times of the day, it is by nature an occupation, and a highly innapropriate one at that for two respectable girls”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“Do you know where my sister is?” I demanded.

“Yes,” she said with a wink. “She is quite lovely, you know. Easily the most beautiful girl I’ve ever been.”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“Evelyn, see there. The eldest from the Ralstons. I hear they have a lovely collection of stained-glass windows.” Ah, yes, just my type: a stiff, prideful lord-to-be with impeccable, cold deportment to prove his perfect breeding.
“Set a date,” I declared solemnly with a wave of my hand. “I shall marry him immediately.”
Rose choked back her giggle, but Mother was far less amused. “Not this childish behavior again,” she said through her teeth, which were still arranged in a polite smile for the guests. “You will give these men more than a second’s thought or deeply regret this attitude in a few years’ time.”
“Yes, when I’m crying next to, God forbid, a plain window,”
― Kelly Zekas

“My only other choice was to rejoin my mother and listen to fascinating facts about every eligible man passing by. (Apparently, Mr. Egbert collects gentleman’s bootlaces! The wonder of it all.)”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vicious Masks

“The man looked at his companion, a sneer on his face as they both began to laugh. “She says she’s dangerous!”
“The little lady!”
Which was ridiculous. I wasn’t little at all.
And less and less a lady.”
― Kelly Zekas, These Vengeful Souls