Kit Marlowe Quotes

“Thank you, Captain Obvious."
"I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.”
― Karen Chance, Fury's Kiss

“A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub.

“And a scoundrel would have joined you.”

-- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)”
― Karen Chance

“For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a sorry state of affairs.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ink and Steel

“You have your magic for solace, but I am not fully alive without him. All poetry flies from my mind when he is gone, and only Matthew can see what little good I have in me. Leave him to me. Please.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“What is a holy mass, Tom, if not a play? A wedding? A coronation? do you wish to know why I am a playmaker? Because I know that, at every moment, we are in the midst of some play. Only in an arena that calls itself theater may we stand outside the real theater - our lives - and we see them in all their truth, Tom. By which, if course, I mean their tragedy.”
― Louis Bayard, The School of Night

“My sin is love in that I love my sin too well to wish to repent of it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hell and Earth

“He couldn’t quite manage the defiant glance over his shoulder and the lift of his chin he would have liked, but his voice stayed steady and that was a victory in itself.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hell and Earth

“In his second night in his room in the Salt Tower, Kit had tried to make his escape through the reflections in the narrow windows; he’d been unable to touch the power of the Darkling Glass at all, and he had wondered at how easily the iron rings on his fingers quelled all the strength he knew he had in him.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hell and Earth

“The windows were small, but a small man might slide through them. Far below he could see lights scattered around the Tower precincts like flower petals on the sheets of a marriage bed.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hell and Earth

“It might lack of warmth, confort, and sartorial splendor, but Kit was happy simply to be clothed.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hell and Earth