You are the bane of my existence; and the object of all my desires.” a literary history of Enemies to Lovers —
If you cast your mind back to March 2022, you might remember the frenzy that erupted with the release of Bridgerton season 2. Among the endlessly quoted scenes was a line that - for a good few weeks - you could barely breathe on social media without seeing. Spoken by series rake Anthony Bridgerton to the ‘enemy’ he’d been making bedroom eyes at all season, “You are the bane of my existence; and the object of all my desires.”
As the long-awaited boiling point of Anthony and Kate’s brewing sexual
