Nicky Rook Quotes

“It’s the scholarship boy. Some creeping toady from a grammar school, at Anselm’s. I call it a disgrace.’

‘Quite right,’ came a third voice, a tall, lean blond, standing a little behind Feynsham. He was no older than the rest of them judging by his face, but his drawl suggested a decadent, world-weary forty-year-old. ‘It’s an outrage. Here you are, Lewis, ready to drink champagne and smash up other people’s property, and instead you find yourself forced into company with an intelligent and hard-working scholar. At Oxford, of all places! They’ll be asking you to read books next.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires

“Nicky shifted to sit up. ‘Curse it. I must go. Morning tutorials demand overnight essays.’

Of course he couldn’t stay, not with the landlady downstairs. ‘Oh, well, good luck,’ Jem said, trying to match his casual tone, but watching as Nicky got dressed. He wanted to ask, What happens next? and didn’t dare, in case the answer was, Nothing.

Nicky pulled on his coat, hesitated at the door, then turned, a slight smile on his lips, at the door. ‘Thank you for your innocence, Jemmy,’ he said softly. ‘I shall treasure it.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires