The Business of Blood Quotes

“Everyone is a whore, Fiona." I felt rather than heard when he unfolded himself from the settee. He wasn't so much a warmth or an essence behind me. But the absence of either.

"We each merely offer different parts of ourselves for use, do we not? Our sex. Our blades. Our muscles. Our mind. Our time. Our souls.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“Intuition was just the brain processing information more quickly than one's consciousness could comprehend.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“Dig two graves, Fiona. One for your enemy... And one for yourself.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one encounters,” I told him. “It makes life too full of terrors.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“Did you love me?" It was a pathetic question asked in a pathetic whisper.

"Oh, Fiona," The lips he pressed against my temple were anything but ecumenical. His hand on my back drifted to my waist. "My feelings for you cannot be reduced to a single word. You are my only temptation.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“Memories make for powerful ghosts..." I whispered.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“Death's business is a messy one.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“I understand what the years have done to you, Fiona. I know all the reasons you do what you do...”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood