The Queer Principles of Kit Webb Quotes

“I used to think that revenge was about defending one’s honor, but it turns out that honor is just spite dressed up for Sunday.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Percy realized he had had it all wrong when he told Kit that honor is just spite dressed up; spite was honor when it was the only weapon you had against someone more powerful.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Percy was somehow still young or naive enough to think that there was any difference between being strong and acting strong.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“In any event," Percy went on, "what I had thought were principles were merely manners, and they're utterly insufficient for my present circumstances.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“I’d be delighted to turn traitor to my class,” Percy said easily. “Honestly, I’ve been wondering when you’d ask.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“One knows things are bad when one's blackmailer sympathizes.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Love, while a fine thing, might be little more than an accident. It was what came next that mattered.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Kit stared at him. “You’ve gone daft.” “I love you.” “Like I said.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Percy kissed him, because there was no use arguing with a man so stubborn.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Percy gave him as incredulous a look as a man could deliver with bubbles all over his head.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Percy preferred to keep his lovers at a safe and cordial distance, and that was precisely how he had planned for things to be with Kit, but all this sweetness was ruining his plans. He was sure that’s what was happening as he bit Kit’s earlobe and felt the man shudder gently against him. This was Percy’s plans being ruined.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Kit gasped, like an idiot, like someone who needed to have the mechanics of kissing and possibly the anatomy of mouths explained to him, maybe with charts.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“I used to think that revenge was about defending one's honor, but it turns out that honor is just spite dressed up for Sunday.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“He had spent a lifetime thinking about his role in the Talbot legacy, always with the tacit assumption that his role would be to accrue and consolidate power as his forebears had done. But for too much power to be in one family’s hands was a blight on the landscape.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“in the world as Kit saw it, getting supper and committing felonies and attempting to dismantle ancestral power were all equally probable events.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“He couldn’t even convince himself that he was deluded or foolish—he knew how Percy felt with a bone-deep certainty, with a surety that was something like faith.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Whatever they had between them, for all its confusion, was good, and it was theirs, and they should take it. Fuck anything that said otherwise.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Kit unsheathed the dagger at his hip. “Strip or I’m cutting those breeches off you.” Percy raised his eyebrows. “In another context that would have been a very fun game indeed.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“I do adore you,” Kit said, gazing up at him with an expression that caused Percy to become intensely interested in the buttons of his coat. “You really shouldn’t,” Percy said. “You can’t stop me, you know,” Kit said. “I’ll care about you as much as I please.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Sorry,” Percy said after a few moments, unsure what he was apologizing for but aware that he was taking up Kit’s time. “Shut up,” Kit said, and kissed him.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“The world he now saw was Kit’s, a world where one could refuse to accept the existing order of things, a world where old truths could be jettisoned and new ones put into place.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Are you coming back from the dead to complain that I’m fucking men who aren’t you?” asked Kit in disbelief. “Are you serious, now?” “Well, yes. It does need to be addressed.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“How’s your leg?” “How’s my leg? You’ve just had your cock up my arse and you’re asking about my leg?”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Like this?” Percy asked. “If you don’t stop asking questions and fuck me, I’m never speaking to you again,” Kit said, pressing back against Percy.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Kit clenched his teeth in jealousy. He did not like watching Percy insult anyone who wasn’t him, which was probably a mad thought, but if insults and flirtation weren’t synonymous for Percy, then Kit was very much at sea.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“But he also knew that the moral of Scarlett’s story wasn’t that rich men abandon their conquests; it was that when you’re treated badly, you start to believe you don’t deserve any better.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“In any event,” Percy went on, “what I had thought were principles were merely manners, and they’re utterly insufficient for my present circumstances.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“What we want to do,” Kit said, after the horses were secured, “is find a place where we can see the road but stay hidden. Do you see that bend? That’s bloody perfect. It’s fucking gorgeous.” He grinned at Percy and found the other man looking at him with a slightly dazed expression. “Gorgeous,” Percy echoed. “Look at the road, not at me.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Percy knew he was leering. In fact, he knew he spent a shocking portion of his time around Kit ogling the man. He might have stopped if Kit didn’t do it right back.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Good God, but the man was easy to look at. He clearly made no effort whatsoever with his appearance and probably never had, which made Percy both faintly jealous and peculiarly aroused.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb