Top 30 Tabitha McGowan Quotes
#1. It was the first time I had ever felt guilt at finding a man attractive.
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#2. I don't expect you to be like them. Don't want you to be. It's not them I want, it's you. From the moment we met, it's only been you.
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#3. The tricky bit was figuring out where we were because I couldn't imagine anyone, God included, daring to send Lilith Bresson to hell.
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#4. I've got one of those horrendous personalities that needs to know every detail about whatever I'm working on.
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#5. She wore a cantilevered, augmented-breast-skimming satin dress the colour of egg-yolk. Somewhere in deepest Nebraska, a prom queen two sizes smaller than Selena was wondering where the fuck her outfit had disappeared to.
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#6. The fanciful theory that a person's life was etched on their physical form - be it despair, happiness, or in this case sheer depravity - was entirely disproved by Blaine. That, or she already had a huge portrait or herself slowly decaying in the attic.
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#7. I pleaded, like a naughty schoolgirl persuading the class swots to bunk off for the afternoon.
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#8. Lilith Bresson, innocent of everything except having a bastard for a father, took her new fate with a calm that was terrifying.
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#9. The voice in my head is is fond of upper-case. It's like having a sub-cranial golden retriever.
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#10. Even at this ridiculous hour, and clad in a faded blue t-shirt and ancient pyjama pants, he looked like something Michelangelo might reject for being too beautiful
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#11. On balance, I'd say I prefer performing in front of a few thousand adoring women, but 'Security Guard at the Castle of the Damned' comes a pretty close second. I should be fine, as long as there are no ghosts.
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#12. I had never thought about what made someone a good whore - too close to home, perhaps - but I only needed to watch Finn for moments to see he was skilled at his trade.
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#13. I can't do this alone, Finn. I need you beside me.
Nobody had ever said that to me.
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#14. I didn't know what the hell to say to that. I just gave an ungrateful sigh of exasperation and pulled the sweater over my head.
'It's just your colour,' Henry enthused.
'And you can fuck right off,' I said.
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#15. Well golly fucking gosh how terribly delightful for her. Now get out.
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#16. In a fortnight Lilith had figured out more about me than anyone had ever cared to know, and I could only hope that she would hold it gently.
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#17. I have this prodigious talent for painting the person behind the facade, but with Blaine the facade is all there is left - just artifice, guile, and an expensive pair of silicone tits.
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#18. Congratulations on your moral bankruptcy, Ms Fenworth.
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#19. Just out of interest, what did you make of my Finn?
Probably the most beautiful man I've ever seen.
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#20. [ ... ] Lilith turned on me with the same fury I had watched her unleash on that fat bastard on the TV and I seriously feared for my balls.
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#21. The momentary discomfort was nothing at all compared to the realisation that she was finding refuge in my flawed embrace.
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#22. Each move seemed to take a lifetime: more than anything, I needed him to know that this was all done with his consent; that at any moment he could say 'no' or move away and everything would still be okay. But he stayed, his eyes never leaving my face.
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#23. But at the end of the day, everything I do costs me. The only question is how much.
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#24. Well if it's Santa on an early shift, I hope he's brought plenty of coal.
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#25. The summer I met Lilith Bresson, I had begun to die. Not physically, you understand. I had never been that lucky. But each day a little more of my soul disappeared.
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#26. What did you call me?"
"Ah. A chuisle. Gaelic. 'My darling'. I prefer the proper translation, mind you."
"Which is?"
He gave a bashful smile. "My pulse.
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#28. Finn gave a soft laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'I think you're the first person to actually apologise for inflicting pain. Usually it's someone's hobby.
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#29. A good Catholic boy like myself? You must be joking. Anyway, it kind of changes things when your equipment's used for business instead of pleasure
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#30. It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you safe. A world where, if you did the right thing you were allowed to get on with your life in whichever way you chose.
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