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

“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

“It hadn't been love at first sight, but at last sight.”
― 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

“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

“Pspsps.”
― 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

“She said his name like a swearword and he rather liked it.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

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

“I’d rather you hate me than not think of me at all.”
― 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

“We exist in a perpetual state of falling-out”
― 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

“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

“Have you no compassion?” asked Fairhrim. “I’m not burdened with it, no.”
― 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

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

“What was between them? An ebb and a flow, curiosity and guilt, today’s fatal daydream and tomorrow’s scars.”
― 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

“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

“You're pitiless with your truths."
"You'd prefer the comfort of lies?”
― 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

“Might we,” asked Aurienne, “go anywhere without subtracting from the population?” “Would you prefer,” asked Mordaunt, “that we add to it?”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“You haven't a heart," said Aurienne. "Besides, isn't forgetting you preferable to continuing to hate you?"

"I'd rather you hate me than not think of me at all.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“There was such witchery in a pair of bright eyes. Pity they had to be hers.”
― 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 would like you to be, too.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy