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161 " A lot of men don’t look at me like they have a fiancée. "
― Laurelin Paige , First Touch (First and Last, #1)
162 " Joe could have saved me the time and energy. Could have spared me the hope. "
163 " No speech that started with murder had a happy ending. "
164 " You don’t want cowards in your court. "
165 " He would have me. He would fuck me. He would bring me into his world. And in return I’d let him break me. "
166 " I hadn’t expected to rock his world but I’d wanted to at least know I’d pleased him. "
167 " I simply know what I’m worth.” “And I know what I’m worth, Mr. Sallis. "
168 " In the meantime, the wound that needed attention was the largest one, the one that gushed and bled from my spirit like a slice across the carotid artery: "
169 " No, you’re not. You’re not scared. Or you’re not scared enough. "
170 " To see me,” I repeated. “For clarity that means…?” “I want to fuck you. "
171 " They want to friend you. They want to fuck you. They want to be fucked by you. "
172 " It’s a façade. It’s the power that attracts you. The idea of violence. Not the actual act. "
173 " I should tell you to make yourself at home, but all I care about is making myself at home inside you. "
174 " For good or bad, all roads led back to him. Perhaps that’s what it meant to really be his. "
175 " A substitute for real emotion dressed in sex and sin. "
176 " Correction—in addition to orgasms. Why do I have a feeling you’re going to be an expensive girlfriend? "
177 " And suddenly, I was scared. Not of what Reeve would do to me, but of what I’d let him do to me. "
178 " That was the funny thing about smiles—if you flashed the right one, no one knew there was more going on inside. "
179 " I may have been walking into the fire, but there was a chance I wouldn’t be walking in alone. "
180 " This hurt, but it hurt good. It hurt, and I knew what I’d choose. It hurt, and I would still choose this. "