Band Sinister Quotes

“The more love you give, the more you are capable of giving. It's only when you shut off the source that it dries up.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Country folk fuck,” Corvin said. “Well, they must; it’s not as if other entertainments present themselves. Plant things, dig things, knit things, fuck things. Make cheese.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Every man is entitled to his beliefs.”
“Yes, any man has a right to his beliefs, and a duty to question them too,” Raven retorted. “If you don’t take out your beliefs for washing now and again, they’re just bad habits.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Would I like sodomy?”
“That is without a doubt the best question that has ever been asked. English was invented purely so that you could ask that.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Let me be frank. I find you intriguing, and extremely appealing, and delightful company, and very much a man who deserves more pleasure in his life. If you’d like to take that pleasure with me, I’d be honoured. If you aren’t so minded, don’t take offence at the offer, and I shan’t at the refusal. And if you decide you’d prefer Corvin, for example, I shall bow out like a gentleman, although I shall probably kick him in the shins at some point from pure envy.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Guy stared at the words. “Broken leg,” he repeated. His voice sounded odd.
“I fear so, sir,” the servant said. “Sir Philip and Mr. Raven found Miss Frisby in a field, I understand.”
“But—is she all right?”
“No, sir. Her leg is broken.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Because that’s how life tends to work in all its aspects. We try things out, and make mistakes, and recover, and learn from our experiences.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“But I don’t think you have. I feel more—more loving, in all the different ways, than I ever have in my life. I feel as though, while you love me, I could be better and kinder to the whole world. If that’s not virtue, I don’t know what is.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Well, nothing really. That’s the point, isn’t it? I spend so long worrying about what might happen because I’m afraid of the worst, but fearing one will be unhappy later shouldn’t stop one being happy now, should it?”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“You’re doing this too, my dear. And you need my permission as much as I need yours.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Christ,” Philip said after a while. “Latin imperatives in bed. I had no idea. Well, now we know why the Roman empire declined and fell.”

“They were declining the wrong verbs.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“I don’t see any advantage in reaching the age of fifty without pain if you’ve also reached it without pleasure,” Corvin said. “And really, a broken heart is a great deal less than a broken leg. ‘Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“How's the debauching?"

"I think it's coming along quite well.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Your eyes are no less lovely because your sister wrote a book,” Philip said.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“It’s not useless, it’s the future. Tell them Bonaparte’s growing sugar beet.” “I’d rather not, Sir Philip. It wouldn’t help.” “Then tell them I’m a violent eccentric and their very lives depend on doing this properly.” “Mmm,” Lovett said. “Perhaps there’s a middle way?”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“If Guy had been asked at any point in his entire adult life prior to this week how he might envisage himself speaking to Sir Philip Rookwood, “planning illicit amours” would have been the least likely answer imaginable, matched only in its implausibility by “up a tree”.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Why should I flatter the rich when I can insult them?”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“I’m actually trying to offer is a way for us to be together. For you to leave here and come with me, no more hiding. There is a world outside.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Guy. I suspect I have been falling in love with you since you came through my doors, terrified of everything and still fighting for your sister. You’ve given me your trust and your innocence and your body, and if I had any sense at all I would have spent the last week telling you I adore you, instead of trying not to face up to the consequences”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“If you speak your pleasures, beloved, you will undo me entirely.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“He’s so gloomy,” Corvin told Guy, in confiding manner. Raven tugged at his hair. “Ouch. Don’t do that unless you mean it. Are you looking for Philip?”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Love is no less because it doesn’t last forever, or even for long.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“He looked different, he was sure. He looked as though he’d eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and everyone would be able to tell it on sight.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“I did say you were like your sister. Your beauty hides itself away, invisible until you decide someone is worthy of seeing it. And then you smile, and it shines.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Corvin didn’t comment. He did, however, interlace his fingers behind his head and begin whistling. His musical skills did not match his appreciation of the art, and it took a moment for Philip to identify the tune as “Love Will Find Out the Way.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“He is.” “No he isn’t. He’s never interested.” “I am here, in this room,” Philip said. “Sitting next to you.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“If only more Christians were guided by Christ.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“But still he’d stood in the halls of the home where he’d been loathed for existing, and listened to Frisby weep for his sister, and his heart had twisted like wet washing with a childish, agonised longing for something he’d never have.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“May I add, though, that ‘yes’ now is not ‘yes’ forever. You have the prerogative of changing your mind.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

“Would I like sodomy?” “That is without a doubt the best question that has ever been asked. English was invented purely so that you could ask that.”
― K.J. Charles, Band Sinister