What Darkness Brings Quotes

“Do you think I don't worry about you?"
"That's not—"
"Not the same? Because you are a man and I am a woman?"
"No. Because it's one thing for me to make the choice to put my own life in danger and something else entirely when my actions endanger someone else."
She touched her fingers to his lips. "I knew what I was letting myself in for when I married you, Devlin."
He smiled against her hand. "I'm not sure I did.”
― C.S. Harris, What Darkness Brings

“Hero . . .” He came to stand behind her. She was aware of his hands hovering for a moment over her shoulders without touching her. Then he turned her in his arms and drew her close. She felt his breath warm against her cheek, the beating of his heart against hers. He said, “I’ve loved Kat since I was twenty-one. There was a time I’d have sworn I could never learn to love anyone again. But . . . I was wrong.”
She touched her fingertips to his lips. “You don’t need to tell me what you think I want to hear.”
He gave her a strange, crooked smile. “I hope it is what you want to hear, because I’m telling you how I feel.”
She said, “It’s what I want to hear.”
― C.S. Harris, What Darkness Brings

“I always say there’s nothing wrong with a bit of vice as long as it’s not taken to the extreme. Give me someone with a touch of vice over someone with an excess of sanctimonious hypocrisy any day.”
― C.S. Harris, What Darkness Brings

“subalterns, when Sebastian bought his first commission”
― C.S. Harris, What Darkness Brings