Rebelexmachina

“And he owned a lot of books, although just now and then, when it got dark and the shelves loomed over him, he got the feeling that they owned him.”
― K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures

“It was really strange how we could forget the words, even the actions, but we always remembered exactly how we’d felt.”
― Teodora Kostova, Cookies

“Do I like you?’ I wanted to sound incredulous, as though to question how he could ever have doubted such a thing. But then I thought better of it and was on the point of softening the tone of my answer with a meaning-fully evasive Perhaps that was supposed to mean Abso-lutely, when I let my tongue loose: ‘Do I like you, Oliver? I worship you.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“This book contains references to a pandemic and the spread of infectious disease.”
― K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures