Speak Easy, Speak Love Quotes

“I'm penniless, alas. If I win, I want a dance. If you win, I'll give you a kiss."
"I don't suppose it occurred to you I might not want your kiss."
"If you don't want it, you can give it back.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“What are you rambling about, you nonsensical contradiction?”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“She let him do it, not only because she came out looking all right in his story, not a clock-throwing ruin of a girl, but also because Benedick's talking about her as if she were already one of them made her one of them. Words. What a tricky, tangled science.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“He felt like climbing a mountain, not for any heroic reason but for something stupid, like picking her a flower; he felt subservient to her whims, desperate for her not to command anyone but him; he felt terrified for feeling all those things after a tiny kiss, a nothing kiss, a fraction, a weed, a sneeze, compared with a dozen other tokens of affection he'd received in his life.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“Benedick Scott was on his way to freedom or profound failure or, if the usual order of things held up, both. Two chests, strapped closed and marked for delivery to an apartment in Manhattan, sat at the end of his bed. On his person he needed only his typewriter, slung over his shoulder in a battered case. He'd stuffed the case with socks to cushion any dinging, along with his shaving kit, a worn copy of Middlemarch, and thirty-four pages of typed future.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“Can I make you a cup of coffee, Mr Scott?"
"That would be lovely," Mr Scott said as she stood.
Benedick looked at her: "How domestic; you know how to make coffee?"
She raised an eyebrow back: "Not well; drink it with caution when it comes."
Benedick was so sure he'd read her correctly, so sure she'd read him correctly, he was at once stunned and disgusted. Her expression showed a similar sentiment; then she hurried out of the room.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“I love you.”
She closed her eyes and tucked his fingers close, right where they belonged. “Against your will.”
“With so much of my heart, none of it is left to protest.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“They returned, Hero pink in the cheeks and grinning like an imp. "And they say Cupid only uses arrows.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“Benedick came into the room, and Mr Scott turned. "Hello son. Is Miss Clark here one of your acquaintances?"
Benedick caught himself about to say"unfortunately" and instead said, "A very recent one.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“Listening to him, Beatrice experienced the afternoon all over again, but this time there was no real danger. There was a boy who'd had a terrific idea that went a little off the rails and a girl who was a good sport and just the kind of sidekick you'd like to have along. Beatrice heard herself laugh when Benedick described her shooting off a man's hat, but it hadn't seemed that funny when it actually happened.

There was a sunniness in his words that somehow even disguised his appearance, erasing the boy shaking with exhaustion, flattening all his mercurial layers into one outfit of razzle-dazzle. But the razzle-dazzle was also real. That was the most baffling part of all. He was this, too.

She let him do it, not only because she came out looking all right in his story, not a clock-throwing ruin of a girl, but also because Benedick's talking about her as if she were already one of them made her one of them.

Words.

What a tricky, tangled science.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“You can't leave me in the same room with him alone, or I'll crumble like the last muffin and kiss him on his big, stupid mouth.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“I find your unlimited competence unsettling.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love

“Benedick was about to lose his ally. He asked, "What was it again you needed me to do?"
Prince considered and said, "Favor Beatrice with your company?"
"I hate you," Benedick thought.
Prince smiled as if he'd heard him.”
― McKelle George, Speak Easy, Speak Love