If We Were Villains Quotes

“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“This,” James said, when he had disappeared. “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars … as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc’d obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting-on!”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You know, you scare the hell out of me [...] I don't know, it's like, I look at you and suddenly the sonnets make sense.”
― M.L. Rio

“We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum. (I blame this in part for what happened.)”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You know everyone calls you 'nice'...but that's not the word. You're good. So good you have no idea how good you are.”
― M.L. Rio

“His arm fell lifelessly to his side. He looked away and said, “Oliver, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I want to hurt the whole world.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“The yard twinkled as though several hundred obliging fireflies had decided to attend the party.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He was the sort of actor everyone fell in love with as soon as he stepped onstage, and I was no exception.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M. L. Rio

“Mi corazón se siente pesado en mi pecho. Los secretos son cargas pesadas como el plomo.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“you can justify anything if you do it poetically enough" - Oliver Marks”
― M.L Rio

“We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum. (I blame this in part for what happened.)”
― M L Rio

“When we first walked through those doors, we did so without knowing that we were now part of some strange fanatic religion where anything could be excused so long as it was offered at the altar of the Muses. Ritual madness, ecstasy, human sacrifice.”
― M L Rio

“I struggled to form words, I felt the shape of them but not the substance.”
― ML Rio

“They looked at each other, stared, indulged, and I followed their eyes, saw what they saw—the line of James’s jaw, the triangle of smooth skin visible in the V of his collar. The backs of his hands, the delicate bones, precise as lines carved by Michelangelo. And Meredith—the soft clamshell pink of her mouth, the curve of her throat, the slope of her shoulders. The tiny mark I’d left with my teeth on the heel of her palm. Anxiety flickered through every nerve in my body.”
― M. L. Rio