Caroline

“If you couldn’t have a thing without hurting someone who didn’t deserve it, you shouldn’t have it.”
― K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures

“It didn’t matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“When people are obliged to keep an eye out for threats, their eyes tend to be sharp. That’s what women’s intuition means, if you ask me: being unconsciously alert for dangerous men.”
― K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game

“I make it a policy never to believe more than a third of what men tell me,”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club