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Manna Francis QUOTES

1 " To Sara's practised eye, this latest episode looked something like a broken heart, even if she'd never seen the look on him before. Or even imagined it happening. She wondered if he'd noticed yet. "

― Manna Francis ,

2 " However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away.

Never enough to make them love you. "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

3 " I was dreaming about this—except it feels even better than I thought it would. Fucking fantastic. Clean sheets. You"

Warrick moved across and kissed him gently, exactly as he’d imagined. Soft cotton and warm skin against him, soothing and luxurious. Hand on his back, touching carefully. He had a moment of fear that this was the dream, that soon he would wake up in the cell. Then a noise distracted him: distant firing in the city. He tensed, and Warrick’s hand stroked a circle over his shoulder-blade. More firing, but it was nothing to do with him. Nothing to worry about, even if he could manage it. Safe, here.

He recaptured the tail end of a thought, before it disappeared into sleep. "Just you. ‘S enough."

If Warrick said anything in reply, Toreth didn’t hear it. "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

4 " You can come round to my flat." Toreth's voice changed, sliding subtly into something hard-edged but seductive. "I don't need chains to make you do what I want. I don't need anything. I can take whatever I want from you, however I want it, and you can't stop me. "

― Manna Francis , Games & Players (The Administration, #3)

5 " It doesn't matter what you want," Toreth breathed into his ear. "All that matters is what I want. Say it. "

― Manna Francis , Games & Players (The Administration, #3)

6 " Could you get off like that without it? Without the chains?"
Without the absolute surrender. "No. And not without you. You more than any of it. "

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7 " Toreth?" Warrick asked softly.
He kept still, breathing slightly irregularly, until finally Warrick climbed into bed beside him. Then it was simply a question of timing the movement right so that they met in the middle, accidentally, and Warrick's arm slipped accidentally round him.
Why, he wondered sleepily, did he still bother pretending? "

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8 " So why are you telling me?"

"Well, for one thing, because I expect that Carnac will try to find some way to mention it, and if I hadn't told you first, you'd be thoroughly pissed off about it when he did."

Warrick said nothing. Well, it had been a fifty-fifty bet which way round would prove more hassle in the end.

"Warrick, if there'd been another way—"

"No, no. I understand. I was merely contemplating the fact that informing me that you had sex with someone else last night—after drugging him—falls under the heading of your being unusually considerate. "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

9 " Whatever it was, it was entirely Warrick's fucking fault. "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

10 " She's Warrick's sister," he said, aiming to sound disapproving and very nearly managing it.

"Yeah, and that's why you want to screw her. Because they have that weird identical twin thing going on, even though they aren't." Her eyes narrowed. "In fact, I bet you've thought about doing both of them at the same time. Side-by-side comparison. Or top-and-bottom comparison."

"That's disgusting." Toreth said, grinning hugely. "

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11 " The world is so beautiful, when you look at it.

So detailed. So sharp. Everything’s just there--so much more than we need. Light we can’t see, sounds we can’t hear. Sometimes I wonder if that’s what it takes to make it real. "

― Manna Francis

12 " Anonymous dark hotel room, not one of Toreth's regular places. Anonymous hands on him, anonymous cock inside him. He liked it. He wanted it. Doing, not feeling. A safe, familiar thing and it was good. Or at least it stopped him thinking. When they had finished and were dressing, the man whose name he hadn't asked said, "Tell Warrick I said hello."
Toreth nearly choked. "What?"
"After hearing his name so many times, I feel like I know him." He didn't have an answer to that. "

― Manna Francis , Quid Pro Quo (The Administration, #2)

13 " He watched Warrick walk away across the café, and started sentences in his mind. Don't go yet. I want five minutes, that's all. One minute. I want you. This could be the last time I see you. This really could be the last time. I want you to— "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

14 " Just you. It's enough.'" (Warrick) "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

15 " Because I'm the best fuck in the solar system." (Toreth) "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

16 " The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn't mean it can't now bring pleasure to someone. "

― Manna Francis , Quis Custodiet (The Administration, #5)

17 " You're telling me you've never wanted to fuck a man? Not even felt curious? Not even found a bloke slightly attractive when you were absolutely hammered?"

"Never. Not once."

Toreth tried to imagine it, and failed miserably. Individual people, that was easy—there were plenty of people he'd never want to fuck, although Chevril wasn't one of them. But writing off a whole fifty percent of the planet because of one chromosome? "Strange. "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

18 " What the hell kind of message were you supposed to send under these circumstances? Tell him I committed suicide because I couldn't bear the idea of Carnac shoving his cock down my throat and expecting me to be grateful for it? Tell him I'm going to miss him, for however long it takes them to kill me? Tell him I'm sorry that the last thing we did together was argue and not fuck? Tell him that he was the best fuck in the world?

"Tell him I..." And his eyes started to sting from looking at her, seeing her crying for him. No one else ever had. "You're the admin—just tell him something. Whatever you think he'd like to hear. Make it sound good. "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

19 " You're not that good a fuck, and really, what else do you have?'

Nothing. The answer was nothing. That was why the idea of Carnac targeting Warrick terrified him so much, because Carnac, bastard though he was, had so much more that Warrick might want. So much more than him. "

― Manna Francis , First Against the Wall (The Administration, #6)

20 " But it isn’t you, is it?

Then he winced inwardly, because that sounded far more…meaningful than he’d intended "

― Manna Francis