A Case of Possession Quotes

“My life changed four months ago, and I utterly failed to understand that until just recently, and therefore… I may have omitted to tell you that I love you.” He took a breath. “That’s all.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“I like to make you know your master,” Crane said. “It's only fair. The rest of the time you've got me so thoroughly enslaved, I might as well be wearing a collar with your name on it.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for it. What is so particularly exciting about desks?”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly.

"That comes later.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“Everyone can do evil. Some people can be forced to it, and some fight against it, and some don't even need an invitation.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“Charm's a very dangerous thing. Lucien, tell me," Stephen said thoughtfully. "This respect for shamans, this inviolability..."
"Mmm?"
"Well, I don't know if you remember, but some three weeks ago, you tied me to your bedposts and spent two hours subjecting me to acts of unimaginable depravity. And considering you call me a shaman--"
"I take issue with 'unimaginable'," Crane interrupted, sudden heat and light rushing through him. "I imagine those acts in detail every night you're not there. In fact, I've imagined quite a few more that I have every intention of subjecting you to when I get a chance.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“No.” Leo grinned reminiscently. “Tom was the most lawless man I ever knew. He always said he never let a friend down—”
“But sometimes people didn’t know they weren’t friends any more until it was too late.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“I don't believe in demons and pitchforks. But I think, if you had to define hell, you could take a good man and deny him the rites he believed in, and condemn his soul to a slow process of corruption until it was nothing but a mass of rage and hate and seething evil that his true self would have loathed. I think that would be hell.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“Stephen rubbed at his face. “Look, I have three choices. I never see you again so I’m not tempted; I give in to temptation and milk you for power until I’m a raging madman; or I control myself. I don’t like the first two options.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“You're a fool, and I'm another. Between us, we barely make a village idiot.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“Nobody ain't going to lay a finger on you, missus," said Merrick. "Not while me and my lord are standing. You tell Mr. Day about it and don't worry no more"
"Since when did you talk to law?" demanded Leonora in Shanghainese.
"Since his nobility's fucking it. Youe want the shortarse on your side.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“I like to make you know your master,” Crane said. “It’s only fair. The rest of the time, you’ve got me so thoroughly enslaved, I might as well be wearing a collar with your name on it.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“Nobody ain't going to lay a finger on you, missus," said Merrick. "not while me and my lord are standing. You tell Mr. Day about it and don't worry no more."

"Since when did you talk to the law?" demanded Leonora in Shanghainese.

"Since his nobility's been fucking it," Merrick returned. "You want the shortarse on your side.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“Problem?" enquired his henchman.

"No, nothing."

"Mr. Day didn't turn up,then?" said Merrick, homing in on his thoughts as ever.

"Been and gone."

"Came and went?"

"Oh, shut up.”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession

“This is typical of you, Steph," said Dr. Gold bitterly. "Typical. Of course you can't just be unnatural like everyone else. Go on, get this overgrown magic lantern out of my way, this is a surgery, not a circus. Out!”
― K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession