Arden Powell > Quotes

“They paused on the threshold and Johnny turned to him, his gaze searching. He looked less like the devil then, his eyes wide and earnest, but Milton wrote that Lucifer knew how to cry.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“They say the devil comes dressed as everything you've ever dreamed of. I never really imagined what it meant until I met you.'
'Should I be flattered?'
'I don't think it's a compliment.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“His only shortcoming was a lamentable lack of grey matter, which he took in stride, cheerfully proclaiming that while he might not have two brain cells to rub together, he was dim enough that he didn't notice their lack.”
― Arden Powell, The Bachelor's Valet

“He looked less like the devil then, his eyes wide and earnest, but Milton wrote that Lucifer knew how to cry.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“He rather enjoyed the liberties Jacobi took, the subtle ways in which he talked back and the less subtle ways in which he occasionally ignored, if not outright disobeyed, orders. Alphonse let him get away with it all for the sole reason that Jacobi had never yet steered him wrong.”
― Arden Powell, The Bachelor's Valet

“Louisiana summers? I’d have thought you’d be used to the heat.” “You never really get used to it,” Nancy said.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Walker and Monnet turned up a few months later, as if somebody needed to fill the gap that Bonnie and Clyde had left. Like America needed somebody to mythologize, then tear to shreds.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Hell has no claim on me, but if it did, it wouldn’t be on account of who I take to bed. There are plenty of more important sins to choose from if they want to drag me down to the fire and brimstone.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“You think we got the devil after us because of what we did?”
― Arden Powell, Flesh and Bone

“Any being capable of creating art must have a soul, surely.”
― Arden Powell, Obsidian Island

“Being afraid and doing something anyway is even more incredible.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“If the north was ever in your blood, it'll stay there.”
― Arden Powell, The Faerie Hounds of York

“Your heart's beating so fast,' Johny murmured against his mouth. 'What are you afraid of?'
Eugene bit Johny's lip and tugged, just to feel the stretch of Johny's smile against his skin. He'd told Angelique that he wasn't scared of Johny, but what he'd meant was that he wasn't any more scared of him than he was of anything else. 'Everything.'
'You can be afraid later.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“There was something about him that exuded the quiet air of a predator in wait, cold-blooded and basking in the sun, his animal eyes fixed on Mary Beth—who never seemed concerned in the slightest.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Dressed all in black, with his dark hair slicked back and his eyes glittering from behind his mask, he knew he looked like the kind of bad idea that was irresistible to a certain kind of person.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He loved how he looked in makeup. Besides the simple aesthetic, he enjoyed the transgression of it, and how it transformed him into something neither this nor that.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“They sometimes found company in each other, two shipwrecked souls drifting side by side, but never for very long.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Not everyone has to be ruthless when it comes to love,”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Or perhaps no one would ever find him, and the foxes and ravens would speak his only eulogy from between sharp teeth and wicked beach, consigning him to the earth in their foreign tongues.”
― Arden Powell, The Faerie Hounds of York

“Your heart's beating so fast,' Johny murmured against his mouth. 'What are you afraid of?'
Eugene bit Johny's lip and tugged, just to feel the stretch of Johny's smile against his skin. He'd told Angelique that the wasn't scared of Johny, but what he'd meant was that he wasn't any more scared of him than he was of anything else. 'Everything.'
'You can be afraid later.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“And until then, we'll stay side by side, and if we forget the world, we'll forget it together. And if we turn into trees, we'll grow so near to one another that our roots will tangle under the ground, and we won't be able to tell where one of us ends and the other begins. We'll be together, this time.”
― Arden Powell, The Faerie Hounds of York

“There was something almost preternatural about the way their luck ran, like they had God or the devil on their side. They had a wildness about them, something beyond the guns and the way they laughed in the sweltering heat, their teeth white like animals’.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Morning," James said, rubbing the grit from his yes. "You all right?”
― Arden Powell, Obsidian Island

“James first met Emery when they were both in their first week of their first year at Pembroke College,”
― Arden Powell, Obsidian Island

“To suggest just enough danger, just enough transgression to make a certain type of man sit up and lean in a little closer, wanting a taste.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He didn't want to do the work to mend their relationship; he wanted to magically undo the damage done to it.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“I was of the impression that you thrived in a more controlled environment.” “Excuse me, but I am very much a master of my own destiny, Jacobi!” “Yes, sir.” “The captain of my own soul!” “Indubitably, sir.”
― Arden Powell, The Bachelor's Valet

“Necessity will drive a man to learn any manner of things. Necessity, and love.”
― Arden Powell, The Faerie Hounds of York

“It was decadent; it was dangerous.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Seduction and pickpocketing: two compulsions he just couldn’t shake.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman