An Affair for Aumont Quotes

“I have told you, George Darling, over and over. I am not going to die until I have gone on one knee before you and asked you to marry me."

"You could ask now," Darling murmured, as footsteps drew nearer.

"It was the kneeling I was looking forward to. But very well." Aumont leaned over so that Darling had an all too intimate view of his bloodstained coat, and whispered in his ear: "George Darling. Would you do me the honour of marrying me?"

"Of course," Darling whispered back, hoping his answer was not lost beneath the book of Lord Hartwell's voice.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“Aumont shrugged. "I am a better shot than any man you have ever met."

"And so humble too."

"True. Humility is another one of my many qualities. I am extremely proud of how humble I am, which, as you can imagine, is quite a philosophical quandary."

Darling laughed softly despite himself.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“But Darling wouldn't even let him cling to those small brutalities. He touched Aumont gently and held him quietly, replaced those memories with something much kinder. Aumont reached up and caught his wrist. Guided Daeling's hand down so that he could kiss his palm. It was all he could think to offer, an echo of what Darling had given him earlier. He left his lips pressed to the warm, callused skin for several long seconds. And then he held onto Darling's hand, keeping it close to his chest as a babe might hold onto some necessary comfort -a blanket or a rag doll- and. eventually, fell asleep.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“We cannot go to your home. It's not even good enough for rats."

Aumont snorted out a laugh. "Oh, that is untrue, sir! The rats are quite at home there! They are my dearest friends. I was going to knit them little scarves for the winter."

Darling couldn't hold back his own laugh. "You never were!"

"I swear it. I was." Aumont's smile was a rare and wonderful thing, and Darling had so rarely seen it without a sharp tinge of bitterness in the curl of his mouth. "I was going to sit there hunched over like a tricoteuse at the foot of the guillotine, needles clacking together as I made all my little rat scarves."

Darling didn't know whether to laugh again, or to kiss him.

Aumont snapped his twig in half, and mimed knitting. "You're just jealous that I did not offer to knit you one."

"I'm not a rat, sir, and I am not jealous!”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“It would be easy to love Aumont -Darling was moer than halfway there already- bit it had been easy to love Lord Christmas too. As easy as grasping the blade of a knife with your bare hands as someone stabbed you with it, and then thanking him for it.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“We are not born with a finite amount of happiness, I don’t think. We lose and find it in strange places, all throughout our lives.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“And it is not true. I am not too good, that is not the issue, I am only myself, that is all, and I wish that just once, somebody would love me this way, love me exactly as I am.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“Come lie with me, if you like. We talk better, you and I, when we are touching.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“I only want to try to do what is right."
"Ah. And to me, this is a difficult thing. An impossible thing. Because what is right for one person so often hurts someone else.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“I think there are many things in life, many choices that we made, that cannot be boiled down to the bare bones of an equation. We are men; we make mistakes. We hurt others and we hurt ourselves.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont