“There is no comfort like complicity.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“I have a hacker, a half-dead dog, and a child. It’s hardly an arsenal.”
― Vicious
― Vicious
“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Secrets carry weight, like lead.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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