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Almost Real QUOTES

Almost Real QUOTES

1 " I’ll tell you, got it? I’ll tell you—it’s because you are the kindest person I’ve ever met. Just the kindest fucking person. How about that, huh? "

― Charlotte Stein , Almost Real

2 " It didn’t come from any place. You’re imagining it. I absolutely never call you cute nicknames in my head. Ever. I’m much too manly for anything like that.”

“Well, that’s a shame because I was just thinking how great it is when you go against the manly grain. You know, like…when you cook things, and respect my boundaries, and touch me so…gently. "

― Charlotte Stein , Almost Real

3 " Of course I could have done things differently. I could stop fucking thinking about you and obsessing over you and fucking wanting you for just long enough to do my fucking job—that’s what I could do differently."

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"Have you any idea what every day here is like for me? I can’t eat, I can’t focus, I can’t sleep. I spend my nights frozen in one position, afraid to move in case I accidentally do all the things I really, really want to do. I want to do them so much that just having you look at me is a kind of torture. Just being near you, just getting a hint of that maddening marzipan scent that’s all over your hair— "

― Charlotte Stein , Almost Real

4 " I’d never leave you. God I’d never leave you. "

― Charlotte Stein , Almost Real

5 " I’d never leave you, either. You know that, right? You know that I’d never hurt you. Just in case that’s what you’re really worried about. And if you wanted to stop, at any point…if you want to—”

“I don’t want to stop. I want to grab you.”

“You want to what?”

She had to check. Maybe she’d hallucinated.

“I want to grab you. I want to grab you now, really bad. Is that okay?”

“Oh my God that is really, really okay "

― Charlotte Stein , Almost Real

6 " Well, that’s good to know. ’Cause man, do I ever like looking at you.”

“You do?”

“Oh yeah. I like these,” he said, and then he stroked over her eyebrows with his thumbs. Not her breasts or her c*nt or her lips, but those big black hairy things that were pretty much the bane of her existence. And he didn’t stop there. He touched the bump on the bridge of her nose and the mole just beneath her ear, murmuring all the while about how sweet he found them, how delicious. "

― Charlotte Stein , Almost Real

7 " You really don’t get how amazing you are, do you? Well let me make it really clear for you—so amazing that I would risk everything, just to let you know. Just to tell you I love you, Sergei. I love you. I love you more than my life "

― Charlotte Stein , Almost Real