Rebelexmachina

“One of the best threesomes of Sam’s life had happened on Valentine’s Day, in fact. The couple had later broken up, the woman ending up in his bed for a few months before he tossed her.”
― Sara Dobie Bauer, Abstract Love

“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

“Will shrugged. “I’ll be voting Labour if this election comes about, and higher taxes and redistribution of wealth sound like good things to me. But I don’t like bombs, or blowing up civilians.”
― K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures

“I got my medals for hand to hand fighting. It’s when you take the personal out of it—the barrage from miles away, the machine guns—that it becomes slaughter.”
― K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures