Laura

“He closed his eye when Mira ran a thumb lightly across his chin and crimson lips, flinching back a little as she put her face close to his and kissed him softly on the mouth. When she pulled back she was smiling somewhat triumphantly, and her fingers pushed his face away in disgust. “I always wondered if he'd ever kissed you,” Mira muttered thoughtfully, “but you taste just like all the other whores around here. Cheap and used.  He told me he doesn't enjoy that sort of thing.” “Which is why he won't fuck you,” Blue retorted without thinking.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“They all knew his reputation, the one where he gave out favors for the right price, and the one where he'd stuck a knife in the last guy that had tried to handle him without his consent.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“Mikas had told him once that the place had been hit during the bombing of the city years earlier, that the residents had been herded out of the building and into transports like cattle, never to return. Their things had been left strewn about and forgotten, a derelict snapshot of the lives they had left behind.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna