A Thief and a Gentleman Quotes

“Being afraid and doing something anyway is even more incredible.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“I know you were never really tamed. It would be cruel to try to cage a wild animal in a life like mine. Because I’m just a housecat, really. I'm very comfortable, and very safe, and I know exactly how boring I am.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Not everyone has to be ruthless when it comes to love,”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Sebastian struck him, a quick backhand that cracked against the side of Whistler’s face. Because as Whistler said those words, Sebastian realised they were true, too. He might love Morgan—and that was terrifying in itself—and Morgan might even love him in return, somehow, miraculously, but he wasn't there at Sebastian side, because love wasn’t enough.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“It was sentiment that got me in this state in the first place. Heartlessness served me quite well, until I let my guard down.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“But it didn’t want to take to the skies; it didn't want anything Sebastian had to offer. It wanted to be safe, and boring, and dutiful, and it very much wanted to raise the alarm that had been its sole purpose,”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He was on the verge of an epiphany, or perhaps a breakdown, and he wanted nothing to do with it. He certainly didn’t want any witnesses.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He didn't want to do the work to mend their relationship; he wanted to magically undo the damage done to it.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“But it was only a small hope. The past rarely does anyone in the present any good.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Seduction and pickpocketing: two compulsions he just couldn’t shake.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“To suggest just enough danger, just enough transgression to make a certain type of man sit up and lean in a little closer, wanting a taste.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“That summer they’d spent together when Sebastian was ten years old felt like an old bruise, swollen and tender to the touch. Everything had fallen apart so quickly after that summer had ended.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He loved how he looked in makeup. Besides the simple aesthetic, he enjoyed the transgression of it, and how it transformed him into something neither this nor that.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Everything about it seemed designed to appeal to him: glitz, glamour, and that certain kind of debauchery that made its home in the youths of the upper class who had more time and money than sense, and who had never experienced a single consequence for their actions, and thus lived fearlessly.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Dressed all in black, with his dark hair slicked back and his eyes glittering from behind his mask, he knew he looked like the kind of bad idea that was irresistible to a certain kind of person.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“It was decadent; it was dangerous.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman