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1 " If you’re already in hell, why not be there together? You could trade longing for guilt and loneliness for shame. But then at least you wouldn’t be apart. "
― Sierra Simone , Harvest of Sighs (Thornchapel, #3)
2 " Wasn’t it true that sometimes the most beautiful things in life were the most destructive, the most grasping? "
3 " I tell him how Becket ended up finishing and making a mess on the bookshelf. “The wooden part,” I clarify, my breathing coming in short bursts. “I never would have let him—on the books—biological debris—” “Good. Biological debris on the books was my chief concern,” he says in a grave tone. "
4 " But in the meantime, please understand this: I. Trust. You. Inherently, explicitly, completely. I trust you with my house, with my old books, with my money, and now with my St. Sebastian. I trust you with everything, and I inflexibly and pertinaciously believe that our respective work is made better by us being kinky and playful and in love. "
5 " Will you hate me for loving you?” he asks brokenly. “I don’t know.” He pauses. “Will you hate yourself?” That. That I do have the answer to. “Yes. "