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1 " Should is only there to make you feel inadequate. That’s its only purpose. So tell me: do you want me to control your orgasms? "
― Sara Taylor Woods
2 " Giving up control is fucking terrifying. Ask anyone who won’t do it. "
― Sara Taylor Woods , Hold Me Down (Carolina Girls, #1)
3 " So you'd let me do whatever I wanted?"I shrugged."Like, literally anything? You'd let me pee on you?""You wouldn't, but no.""You'd let me parade you around downtown naked? Force-feed you into Type II Diabetes? Give you a bit gag and a pony-tail plug and make you pull me around in a rickshaw?""No. No. None of those things." I shook my head. "Your brain is a weird place.""Real people do that stuff, Talia. Just because their kinks aren't your kinks doesn't mean they're weird or gross or wrong. "
4 " And this sharp intensity when he'd looked at me, like he could get to know me without asking questions, like he already knew too much. It had run me through like a bayonet, skewered me and split me open. "
5 " Should is only there to make you feel inadequate. That's its only purpose. "
6 " Talia, why did you want to give your virginity to a stranger more than twice your age?""I didn't give my virginity to anyone. He was just the first dude to put his dick in me. And that was how I planned it. I let him seduce me, I let him fuck me, and I let him cook me breakfast. It was great. "
7 " People knock you around and you knock them back and you go home and use Tumblr for its intended purpose and you sleep like a fucking baby. "
8 " Fuck walking lunges. "
9 " I don’t want to write lines or be sent to the corner. "
10 " He grinned, wide and menacing. “You know how hard it is to bruise an ass with your hand?” “Since the answer is obviously no, I’m going to assume it’s very hard, and that shit-eating grin on your face tells me you’ve done it, so I ought to be intimidated. Am I close? "
11 " You can’t have a relationship without trust. "
12 " Can you listen for a minute? I know you won’t listen to Olly or your mom but maybe you’ll listen to me. Your dad has hurt you in some really profound ways, but I don’t want you to think the only way of fixing it is by finding a man who won’t do that.”“Are you trying to tell me I shouldn’t be dating anyone?”“No,” she said. “I’m not. I’m not even telling you you shouldn’t be dating Sean, or that you shouldn’t go see him right now. I’m telling you I’m here for you, always, and one hundred percent, even if everyone else fucks off. I’m telling you you’re brave and brilliant and strong. You’re the sister I never had, and I love you. "
13 " Besides, you heathen, Hillel is not about getting laid.""All things are about getting laid, Talia. "
14 " It’s one thing to eat pasta when you’d rather not because your partner loves it, but if you don’t want to be beaten with a switch, you shouldn’t ever agree to it. Especially not if it’s just to make your partner happy. Limits exist for a reason, and she was willing to push all of hers, just blow right the fuck past them, because she thought it made me happy. "
15 " Fucking sadists. "
16 " He’s your professor. And I know banging a professor has been on your bucket list for a long time, but it’s actually super unethical. "
17 " It’s power exchange, not a power grab. Your life isn’t some kind of metaphorical barbarian country, and Sean’s not some bloodthirsty warlord who came in and assassinated your vaginal dictatorship. "
