Reckless Quotes

“Good lord, Henry. You’re almost as strange a creature as me. Perhaps stranger, because you look so wholesome and brown and bonny, like a pretty ploughboy. Whereas nobody could ever mistake me for anything but what I am.” “And what are you?” “I’m a thief,” said Jem. “And a whore. A molly. A mary-anne. That’s what they used to call us back in London, us boys who dressed as girls and called one another sister.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Reckless

“They knew his flag with its heart and dagger, and they knew his name. Nicholas Buchanan, the Buckler. It wasn’t a gravestone, but perhaps his reputation would be its own memorial.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Reckless

“For all she’d picked up a needle and bent her head and looked like a girl in a painting that might hang in a gentleman’s house, there was still something wrong about her. Something soiled and exciting that had no business lurking behind the eyes of a well-bred young woman.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Reckless

“He held his breath and listened to the wind in the sails. “Raise the black!” They glided alongside. The French frigate was silent. Too silent. It set the hairs on the back of Henry’s neck on end and filled his mind with old mariner’s tales. Ghost ships condemned never to see shore again.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Reckless

“It was one thing to pack your son off to have his speech fixed by an actor, quite another to have your son laced into a dress and taken for a girl.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Reckless