Scenes from the City Quotes

“Greg…not everyone is capable of fighting the great fights. Not everyone is brave and strong and powerful. Let people have their causes. Allow them their victories, when victories can be had, without begrudging the wrongs that they right. Attending to injustice, no matter how small, is always a worthy cause.”
― Penny Reid, Scenes from the City

“Your birthday gift to me is to place me in the middle of an art heist so that I can taser someone?” He nodded, smiling, looking very proud. “Thank you, Alex. I mean it. I...I just love you so much.”
― Penny Reid, Scenes from the City

“When did you know?"
I watched him take a breath, and with it all pretense fell away. All his walls, all his cleverness, all his grandstanding and pretending. He looked vulnerable, and it made my chest ache.
"When I saw you..." he whispered, leaning forward, his eyes on mine until he became blurry. He slid his nose against my nose, nipped my bottom lip. My mouth parted in response.
"I saw you..." he kissed my parted lips, "you bent over to pick up your pen, or some such item..." he kissed me again, this time on the corner of my mouth, and my eyelids fell, my heart swelling, my breath catching, "and I thought to myself..." one more press of his lips on my jaw, "I thought, I am going to tap that ass.”
― Penny Reid, Scenes from the City

“I’m going to take this from you, but you shouldn’t be surprised because you know I’m a selfish bastard.” His voice was low, gravely, almost a whisper, his lips just inches from mine. “But I also want to make sure it’s done right. I don’t know this Mark from art history. He could be a rubbish kisser, scarring you for life. It might take me years of kiss-therapy to undo the damage.”
― Penny Reid, Scenes from the City

“I exist as many things. All of them are in love with you.”
― Penny Reid, Scenes from the City

“Your birthday gift to me is to place me in the middle of an art heist so that I can taser someone?”
― Penny Reid, Scenes from the City