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81 " Do you believe in responsibility? Like, to heaven. Not the law or the rules. But that God or whatever knows what’s your fault and what you should have done to make it right, and if you don’t, you’ve done wrong? Even if something wasn’t directly your fault, but you caused it with some stupid decisions and you let bad shit happen when you could have stopped it? That kind of responsibility. "
― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)
82 " Isn’t it about time other people stopped deciding what was for my own good? Maybe treat me like an adult who can make her own decisions? I have my own reason for wanting you to be my lawyer, and it has nothing to do with your experience. I don’t want to explain myself to some strange, experienced person. I need someone to work with who I am. Do you get it? "
83 " Could I do this? Could I spend an hour dominating this woman? I didn’t want to hurt her. She was precious to me. "
84 " Because I’m human. It’s human to care.” “But it’s not your job. "
85 " Every time I fuck you, I want to possess you. Your pleasure, your pain. Look. "
86 " Empty your heart, my kitten. Empty your mind. Open your eyes. Who do you see? "
87 " She was lovely. I just wanted to enjoy her without responsibility, but that wasn’t why she was here. She’d come here to submit to me. I had a job. "
88 " You’re a little whore, kitten, but you’re my little whore. Do you understand? I own this mouth. I can fuck it with my hand until you drool. I own this ass, and I’ll put a hook in it when I like. Your cunt is mine to fuck with anything I want. "
89 " That’s not a reason to give your life to God. "
90 " I had no words, and I always had words. "
91 " Sex was my superpower, and I knew when a man wanted me. "
92 " Freedom can be frightening,” she whispered, half asleep. “You’re only free to choose how you’re going to not be free. "
93 " He was right across the desk, and I wanted him to take me like his little vanilla whore. "
94 " Mostly, I expected to look at him and wonder how he could make a slave of a woman who could have any man she wanted. "
95 " realized she was as much of an addict as I was, and refinement was her drug of choice. "
96 " I put off ordination over God’s sadistic torture of his only son, and subsequent torture of millions of people, because what was the point of salvation if you still existed at the whims of God and man? What was the point of faith if you were still subject to suffering? I understood all the theologies, but I didn’t see why I had to align myself with it. I understood the idea of God as compassionate observer, healer, and strength. Those were all nice ideas. But why choose to stand by them as partner? Why become a mouthpiece? "
97 " I’m not living in a cage. "
98 " I’d find a life somewhere in the rubble. "
99 " I wanted control over her body as I’ve never wanted anything before. But she wouldn’t. Not this girl. No time. Got to get to work. Got to argue. Got to talk about fear. "
100 " She couldn’t get that the fucking itself wasn’t degrading. The intentional degradation was degrading. And hot. "