Two Rogues Make a Right Quotes

“I’m here, full stop, because it’s my home, because—as you said two minutes ago—it’s where you are, you monumental lackwit.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“You’re allowed to be greedy and grasping. You’re allowed to be cross with him. That’s sometimes what love is. It’s not all sweetness and light.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“It was as if his mind had taken the source of all his nightmares and mapped it onto the face of the person he loved best, as if to remind him that maybe the sea wasn’t all bad.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Fuck off, Will. That is—that is—just give me more cheese and shut up.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“This was going to be the death of him. He had survived this latest illness only to be murdered by casual affection.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“To his horror, Martin realized his eyes were hot and prickly. He pressed his thumb and forefinger to the bridge of his nose to spare himself some modicum of dignity. “It is exhausting to be a decent person. I could be a villain with no effort whatsoever. It would be like rolling downhill.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Oh, thank God.” Martin felt wildly grateful. “Obviously, if he wanted to just put his heart out there for all the world to see, that would be his choice. And I suppose it’s worth something that even after everything, his heart is so—“ He swallowed. “There’s no ugliness in there.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“He had always thought that doing the right thing would offer some sort of moral reward but it turned out it felt like complete shit. No wonder people resorted to villainy.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Martin had set their little table with the plain earthenware dishes and tin spoons Will had unearthed in the loft, and when Will walked in he was fidgeting with one of the plates, turning it around so a chip wouldn’t be visible from Will’s seat. It was such a small and homely gesture, so totally pointless—Will didn’t care about chipped crockery, but obviously Martin did, which was what made it sweet. And it was even sweeter because this was one of the days Mrs. Tanner didn’t make their supper: all this effort was for bread and cheese.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“He let out a sigh, something between relief and anticipation, because he had wanted this for so long, just a sign that he wasn’t the only one who wanted.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“You’re a terrible liar, Will, so don’t even try. I remember you calling me sweetheart, and love, and all manner of soft things.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Martin snorted. It shouldn’t be funny. There was nothing funny about what happened to Will, and only in his darker moods did Martin find much humor in his own predicament. But still he was laughing, and when he looked over, saw that Will was smiling, one hand over his mouth. It felt like —he couldn’t think of anything less theatrical than miracle—that they were standing here, alive, relatively well in mind and body, and laughing about everything that had happened.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“His hair, which had been wheat blond during childhood, was now the dark ash blond of driftwood, and his eyes were the dangerous gray of the North Sea but sometimes, rarely, flecked with the shifting blues of sea glass. It seemed so strange that Will had only learned these things after traveling thousands of miles away from Martin, but now he couldn’t look at his friend without thinking of the ocean. It was as if his mind had taken the source of all his nightmares and mapped it onto the face of the person he loved best, as if to remind him that maybe the sea wasn’t all bad.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“He was beginning to believe that a sharp tongue and terrible manners were a hereditary condition.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Well, our hearts are all idiots.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“You’re so dramatic. Sometimes I can’t believe that I’m the one who wrote a play.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“The penniless and consumptive son of your brother’s mortal enemy,” Martin went on. “You are so dramatic,” Will muttered before again kissing that spot by Martin’s ear.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“If you can be stupid for me, then I can be stupid for you.” “You’re stupid no matter what you do,” Will said, trying very hard to sound like he wasn’t about to cry.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Did you know?” Will began. So they were at the Did You Know stage of inebriation, then. Martin knew it well, and suppressed a fond smile. “Did you know that your fingers are very long?” He held up their joined hands, pressing them palm to palm, as if to compare.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“She was an accomplished scowler, managing to take the expression all the way from her pale, furrowed eyebrows to the tip of her sharp little chin, a masterful feat Martin had only seen achieved by his own father.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Martin was fairly sure he himself liked women as much as he liked men, which was to say not particularly much.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“But they both knew that Martin was most comfortable when they both pretended that everything they did was for Will’s pleasure.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“He had made peace with a lot of things lately, and was starting to suspect that his idea of making peace was other people’s idea of expecting the worst, but that might merely be a semantic difference.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Martin wasn’t sentimental often, but when he managed it, he was rewarded by a blinding smile, such as the one he was favored with now.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“He wouldn’t ever describe himself as a flirt, but he supposed most flirts wouldn’t. He knew how to make people feel that they were the center of the universe, that was all. There was something worth liking in nearly everybody, and it was no hardship to figure out what it was. The trick was to do so while also hinting, in the vaguest of ways, that it might be nice if they were able to continue this charming conversation in the nearest bed.”
― Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right