The phrase "a quirk for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a peculiar or unique interest or inclination someone has towards something.
Example: "She has a quirk for collecting vintage postcards from around the world."
Alternatives: "a fondness for" or "an affinity for".
That seems rather a quirk of fate for BHP.
He learned that brine shrimp were a quirk of nature, surviving for years in suspended animation.
But for a quirk of history that made Basutoland (Lesotho's forerunner) a British protectorate, it would probably have been a South African province.
But even Patton might not have been able to persuade anyone to put the Davis Cup here if not for a quirk of Boise's geography.
Yet, but for a quirk of history, Stoute could be at the other end of the microphone from the one to which we have become accustomed.
And yet, James might never have been discovered if it were not for a quirk of fate that brought the American novelist Kaylie Jones to Jamaica's Calabash book festival in 2003.
A: I've always had a weird fascination with nuclear power possibly a strange quirk for a chipper, upbeat little Navy wife and I finally traced this back to its genesis: The fact that, every summer as a child, I visited my nanna in Seabrook, New Hampshire, where she lived within the 10-mile "danger zone" of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.
The phrase 'Black Friday' remained a Philadelphia quirk for a surprisingly long time.
It's a solid piece of hardware, but it had a curious quirk for something made under Google's watch: it didn't work with Google Home or Google Assistant.
Moreover, it does seem an odd evolutionary quirk for a mechanism to require four concentric rings, together with a host of additional proteins, in order to pull in, under constriction, a double-membrane structure, this aside from the positional control, functional energy control or final membrane fusion in the process.
