Kj Charles Quotes

“Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.”

Crane grinned at him. “One was in absentia. One wasn’t, and I spent three days in a condemned cell. I can’t recommend the experience.”

“And—did you say a smuggler?”

“That was what the death sentences were for.”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

“After a few years in the grave, the baronet and the pauper look very much the same.”
― K.J. Charles

“Merrick and I had both had tattoos, my magpie and his elephant and castle, imposed on us as…it’s a long story. A reward, or apology, or both, from the Dragon Head, or grand master, of one of the larger criminal organisations in China after we accidentally saved his son’s life.”
“Accidentally?”
“It’s a VERY long story.”
― KJ Charles

“He went through the bills with the jaundiced eye of a China trader, asking himself not whether he had been stolen from, but where the theft had occurred. If he couldn’t find it, that would suggest his factor back home in Shanghai was either cleverer or more honest than he had thought, and Crane didn’t think he was particularly honest.”
― KJ Charles

“Do you remember—”
“Fuck, yes.” Merrick stood. “And if you’re telling this story, I’m getting the bottle.”
― KJ Charles