Alyxandra Harvey Quotes

Why are you limping like that?' Nicholas demanded.
'I'm swaggering,' I informed him.
'You look like you're wearing a diaper.'
Charming. And I had a crush on this guy.
Wait.
I had a crush on this guy?
'Now what?' he asked. 'You're making weird faces.'
'Nothing,' I said quickly. 'Never mind.

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators

Her eyes went so wide they nearly bulged. It was probably wrong of me to find that amusing. Or to want to take a photo of Nicholas with his fangs out and wearing a black cape lined with red satin and then hang it over my pillow in a heart-shaped frame.

There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!

Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army-the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.

I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.

Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs.