Knight & Stay Quotes

“You asked me in Paris how many women I'd loved. I said one. I should have said two." He cupped her cheek, his thumb rubbing over her bottom lip. "As a child I loved my mother, and as a man I love you.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“Theirs was a closeness that went way beyond physical proximity. She was under his skin. Moving closer to his heart.
He just didn’t know it yet, because no one else had ever found the pathway before.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“You want me. And I’m here, now, saying I want you too, saying I love you, and I don’t know where the hell it’ll end up, but I’m brave enough to say that right now you’re my everything. You’ve opened my eyes, and my body, and my heart so much more than I knew existed, and you make me feel beautiful, and protected, and adored, and I don’t think you could do all of those things if you didn’t love me back.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I don’t love you,” he ground out, biting her lip.
Sophie wound her arms around his neck, her fingers in his hair as she kissed him gently. “I don’t love you either,” she whispered, holding him close and rocking the last ebbs of pleasure out of him. “I don’t love you either.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“You said something to me” …
“I know” …
“Don’t say it again … Because I won’t say it back” …
“I know that too”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“They say the best way to get over a man is to get under another one”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I don't want to wake up and find you're not really here," he whispered, not yet opening his eyes.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I love every beautiful fucking inch of you, Sophie Black.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“No. No, you're not like him," she spat. "You're your very own brand of fucked up, Lucien.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I don’t want to feel this Sophie. Like I’ve led you on, or like I can’t be with anyone else. “
“Lucien, you said yourself that you don’t want to be with anyone else!”
“Yes, and you have no idea how much that fucks me off. Don’t you get it, Sophie? I don’t want these feelings, or these cravings.” He splayed his hand on his chest. “It’s not who I am.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“…then she was Sophie Black, the girl who surprised him. He'd never met anyone quite like her before. On first glance she was quiet and unassuming, but scratch the surface and she was spectacular.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“Lucien drew female eyes wherever he went. It wasn't just his height, or his Viking beauty, or his broad shoulders. The man exuded lust from his very bones: he emitted sexual charisma on a frequency that no woman could be expected to ignore.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“You want me. And I’m here, now, saying I want you too, saying I love you, and I don’t know where the hell it’ll end up, but I’m brave enough to say that right now you’re my everything. You’ve opened my eyes, and my body, and my heart so much more than I knew existed, and you make me feel beautiful, and protected, and adored, and I don’t think you could do all of those things if you didn’t love me back.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“It was sex, it was fucking, and it was making love. It was life in glorious technicolour, full of promise and joy. The best of all worlds, with the best of all men.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“This was goodbye. The best, longest, sexiest goodbye kiss ever…”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“Okay, okay. No kissing. No touching. No flirting." He touched his fingers to his forehead in mock salute.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“Will you kiss my envelopes before you mail them?”
“Will you give me my job back if I say yes?” He gestured towards the doorway to her old office.
“It's all yours.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“Lucien Knight was a walking, talking hang up, a beautiful mass of contradictions. He'd been single-minded in his mission to free her from her marriage and it was time to return the favour.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“The egg was vibrating, and not the egg on her plate. Astounded and flustered, she picked her fork up swiftly…”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I want sex with you now, but that doesn't mean I'm going to want sex with you for the rest of my life.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I shagged my sex god boss whilst my husband was on holiday with his secret mistress’ has a certain ring to it.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“You look utterly fuckable.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“...It's not okay." He spoke jerkily, painfully. "I will hurt you, and I will leave you, and I will cheat on you.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“The man was a walking, talking poster boy for his own sinfully sexy empire.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I've quit.
I didn't get your resignation letter. Invite me in.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“I don't want lunch, because I'm not hungry," he said. "And I don't want anger management classes, because right now angry is all I have," he spat. "And I don't want condoms, because it seems that I'm incapable of fucking anyone but you.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“Seducing Sophie had been a mutual pleasure and she'd proved herself an excellent and very willing pupil, but when it came to freeing her he'd failed dismally. He'd freed her from one cheating man, only for her to fall in love with another who couldn't or wouldn't give her what she deserved.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“They were lovers, except without the love. It was about sex. Amazing, fantastic, not-ready-to-walk-away-from-it-yet sex.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“He'd made her see that she'd been living on the edges of life, existing rather than embracing its bountiful richness in technicolour. He'd plunged her head first into a storm of sensations and emotions; a mental shredding of an old, dull skin; a seductive invitation. 'Hello, come with me, let me show you somewhere bigger, more dazzling, more truly alive.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay

“Lucien was a whole lot of trouble because he made her want things she couldn't possibly have. He made ordinary life feel pale and insipid, a watered-down version of the existence she'd tasted that had him in it.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay