Death in the Spires Quotes

“It was typical of Nicky. The whole note was typical, in fact. Jem didn't know anyone else who'd use semicolons in a brief scrawl, and he hadn't realised how much he'd missed that sort of thing.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires

“He was frightened, and, once he recognised that, he realised he’d been frightened for a very long time, at a level so deep he hadn’t known it. One of the people he most loved had become a murderer, and he’d never trusted anyone again.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires

“Nicky shifted to sit up. ‘Curse it. I must go. Morning tutorials demand overnight essays.’

Of course he couldn’t stay, not with the landlady downstairs. ‘Oh, well, good luck,’ Jem said, trying to match his casual tone, but watching as Nicky got dressed. He wanted to ask, What happens next? and didn’t dare, in case the answer was, Nothing.

Nicky pulled on his coat, hesitated at the door, then turned, a slight smile on his lips, at the door. ‘Thank you for your innocence, Jemmy,’ he said softly. ‘I shall treasure it.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires

“It’s the scholarship boy. Some creeping toady from a grammar school, at Anselm’s. I call it a disgrace.’

‘Quite right,’ came a third voice, a tall, lean blond, standing a little behind Feynsham. He was no older than the rest of them judging by his face, but his drawl suggested a decadent, world-weary forty-year-old. ‘It’s an outrage. Here you are, Lewis, ready to drink champagne and smash up other people’s property, and instead you find yourself forced into company with an intelligent and hard-working scholar. At Oxford, of all places! They’ll be asking you to read books next.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires

“Because I don't know what we're going to do, Jem, singly or together. I don't like any of the courses of action that seem right, and all the options I'd prefer to take seem wrong.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires