Velvet Quotes

“What do you feel, Spymaster?”
“Too much.”
― Lisette Marshall, Velvet

“I don’t think I’ll ever find the words to tell you how much I want you.”
― Lisette Marshall, Velvet

“I’m bad at feelings, Velvet. If I had allowed my feelings to get to me in the last years, they would have destroyed me. So I lived by duty, and right now my sense of duty is only telling me that I can’t have this feeling at all.”
― Lisette Marshall, Velvet

“You did want me?”
“Not in a past tense, either.”
She jerked back her head, her voice rising. “But you never even touched me if I didn’t ask for it!”
“No, of course I didn’t – you’re a princess, gods be damned! What am I going to do, shove my dick into your face?”
“Can’t say I’d have minded.”
He burst out laughing.”
― Lisette Marshall, Velvet

“Copper Coast might have perfected the surface of the meek, polite lady, but underneath that mask it had crafted something far more dangerous, something angry and determined – she had learned to recognize her limitations and, worse, to work around them.”
― Lisette Marshall, Velvet