“Everyone in the room was watching James—how could they not?—but I was the only one who really knew him, every inch.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“He's bigger than all of us."
"No, Oliver, idiot. He's bigger than each of us.”
― If We Were Villains
"No, Oliver, idiot. He's bigger than each of us.”
― If We Were Villains
“if you haven’t made any enemies in life, you’ve been living too safely. And that is what I wish to discourage”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“It’s like Romeo and Juliet.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“It occurred to me (for the first time, I think) how alone we were when the Castle was empty, when there wasn’t a party, when the other students were all half a mile away at the Hall. It was just us—the seven of us and the trees and the sky and the lake and the moon and, of course, Shakespeare. He lived with us like an eighth housemate, an older, wiser friend, perpetually out of sight but never out of mind, as if he had just left the room. Music is the force of heaven-bred poetry.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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