The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy Quotes

“He looked at her as one who wished to worship, and one who wished to defile.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“It hadn't been love at first sight, but at last sight.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“If she had a flaw, it was that she was the Best, and she knew she was the Best. Some called it arrogance. She called it competence untainted by performative humility.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“They named the kitten Acts of Warranted Brutality”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“Close your fly.” “There’s no button,” said Osric. “Avert your eyes, lest your gaze grow lustful.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“He's more important to me than I would wish him to be," said Aurienne. "For what it's worth, I think you're more important to him than he'd like you to be, too.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“Pspsps.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“He hadn't paid attention. He had been stupid-- gods, so stupid. He no longer owned his heart.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“He and she sat in the moonlight as lover and beloved.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“Osric did not want Fairhrim to be beautiful. He was susceptible to beauty. He was an appreciator of beautiful things. He wanted to acquire them. He wanted them to be his. Now, as Fairhrim neared, he fought a momentary panic that his beauty-loving heart would want Fairhrim in any way, that her loveliness tonight would trigger some latent kleptomaniac urge.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“You do realise," Said Wellesley, "that you've only got one man here."
"No," said Aurienne, with ruefulness born of sad truth. "I've got a monster."

Now Mordaunt moved.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“While it lasted, the kiss was eternal. And it was too much and too little, and it was unhallowed, and it was sacrosanct.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“She said his name like a swearword and he rather liked it.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“A pair of pink heart-shaped sunglasses rested upon its skull.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“Ask me no questions and I shall tell you no lies.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“You are a Phenomenon.”
“Don’t compliment me,” said Aurienne.
“Does it make you uncomfortable?”
“Yes.”
“Good. I like to see you suffer.” This was accompanied by a wink.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“Have you no compassion?” asked Fairhrim. “I’m not burdened with it, no.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“We exist in a perpetual state of falling-out”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“He saw before him the beautiful impossibility of it all, league upon league of impossibility stretching between them. It was ruthless folly; it was the sorrow of a thing before it could begin; it was a new circle of torment; it was a delicious wound. What joy seamed by misery. What pleasure fraught with pain.

It hadn't been love at first sight, but at last sight -- gods, at last sight--

Far above, the moon hung like a promise.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“If anyone raises a hand against you, they're dead, I want you to know.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“You are a Calamity—” “Thank you.” “—but we’ve got more important things to discuss.” “More important than me?”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“He hated that he had come to the waystone whole, but left it having lost a piece of himself in two star-brilliant eyes.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“You pointy-footed bugger, gasped Osric.
That's a messy kill, said the deofol, jutting his chin towards the body.
My client wished to send a message, said Osric.
Was the message--I don't know where the jugular is and had to stab him twelve times to find it? --asked the deofol.
So Fairhirim's deofol was as irritating as she was. No surprises there.
When I want a--a cat weasel's opinion on my work, I'll ask for it, said Osric.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“It was hard, being perfect in an imperfect world, but Aurienne managed. If she had a flaw, it was that she was the Best, and she knew she was the Best. Some called it arrogance. She called it competence untainted by performative humility.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“Your ethical bounds keep you so confined, it’s a wonder you can move.” “I don’t know how you move, given the weight of your sins.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“That was the thing about war: ...every clash, every battle, brought you nearer and nearer to the other.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“Stop prying, or I shall pry at you in return.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“her breasts were insured, and also that they had names (from left to right, Thoughts and Prayers).”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“Once again they had met upon a threshold, once again they had reached an Almost, and once again she had fled. She would never cross over. And he was burdened now, with the memory of a swiftly beating heart, exhilaration and pleasure, and the weight of regret. He wished he could unkiss her.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“You're pitiless with your truths."
"You'd prefer the comfort of lies?”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy