Killing Eve Quotes

“Oxana had never felt the slightest need to be liked, but it gave her profound satisfaction to be desired.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle

“With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an academic, or an assistant in the better sort of a bookshop. But there's something about her—a stillness, a fixity of gaze—that tells another story.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle

“I may be empty inside, hollowed and devoured by Oxana, and I may be alone and beyond redemption, but I will not be broken.
Fuck them all.
I will not be broken.”
― Luke Jennings, Killing Eve - Die for me: Tome 3

“Most of the time, most days, I feel nothing. I don’t feel anything. It is so boring. I wake up, and I think, again, really? I have to do this again? And what I really don’t understand is how come everyone else isn’t screaming with boredom, too.”
― Oxana Vorontsova

“Tenderness, sympathy, distress, guilt, shock, sadness… Villanelle has never actually experienced any such emotions, but she can simulate them all.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle

“She’s taken to pacing mutely around the flat in the evenings, vodka tonic in hand, like an alcoholic ghost.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle

“Sex, for her, offers only fleeting physical satisfaction. What she finds much more exciting is to look into another person’s eyes and to know, like a cobra swaying in front of its hypnotised prey, that she is in absolute control. But that game gets boring, too. People capitulate so easily.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle