Sweet Cruelty Quotes

“God bless adorable little book nerds and the stupid boys who don’t know their worth.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“My romance books had been true. There was something exhilarating about being with a bad boy.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Some men send flowers after a night of passionate sex. Yours sends a high-tech security system.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“She was like an angry butterfly trying to attack a lion with the flutter of her pretty wings.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Ilove you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“My entire life, I had only gotten what I wanted by taking it… why should Emma be any different?”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Gambler. Fighter. Murderer.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Prim, proper, and shy on the outside but on the inside she was a little firecracker just waiting for someone to light her spark. Good thing I was the one with all the matches.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Ican see he’s not in your good books,” said the messenger. “No, and if he were I would burn my library. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“We might be dealers in death, but that didn’t mean we had to be the ones pulling the trigger.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“I was selfishly claiming her as my own, regardless of the consequences. As I said, I was no gentleman.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Dimitri Antonovich Kosgov,”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“I don’t think you know what type of woman you are… but I do. There is much more to you, my sweet Emma, than meets the eye. I think many people have underestimated and overlooked you… I won’t be one of them.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Shakespeare is the only author afforded the honor of his own Dewey Decimal call number, 822.33.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Shy librarian students like me didn’t attract the attention of rich, influential men like him.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Other women might be better at this sort of thing, but I did not have the skill set to handle a man like him. I knew when I was out of my depth and right now I was drowning in some seriously deep, shark-infested waters.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Oh, my God!” My eyebrow rose. “Close, but most people call me Dimitri.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“No, it was safer… for all involved… if I kept my fucking as a purely commercial exchange.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Girlfriends asked inconvenient questions. They didn’t appreciate when you disappeared out of the country for weeks at a time to some godforsaken war zone to meet with a vicious dictator. They were a liability. There was no telling when they would suddenly turn on you like a viper and go to the authorities with all the little pieces of information they had learned after months in your bed.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“There was no explaining why such a small slip of a girl fascinated me.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Dimitri”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“You are mine, my little one.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Years from now, when I worked at some quaint little suburban library, I’d feast on the memories of tonight and know that at least for one night, I had been the heroine of my story.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“Oh, my God! This is just like ‘Smashed,’ season six, episode nine of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! The one where Buffy finally fucks Spike and they tear the house down around them!” observed Mary excitably.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“I’ve been telling you for years that men dig that whole innocent schoolgirl vibe you’ve got going on but your nose is too buried in a book to notice. That’s why you’re a virgin at twenty-three.” She stuck her tongue out at me with her last statement.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty

“In books, the wallflower got the guy.”
― Zoe Blake, Sweet Cruelty