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1 " Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine. "
― Alexis Hall , For Real (Spires, #3)
2 " I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. But life didn’t work that way, and fucking up was forever. "
3 " My cock actually sort of staggers like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn’t know when to stay down. "
4 " The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty. "
5 " Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient. "
6 " It's not what you do, it's what it means. "
7 " You do know you’re one of the hot ones, right? You could have any dom in this room if you looked marginally more approachable than an underfed piranha having a bad day. "
8 " My dominant (no pun intended) discourse seems to be needy as fuck. "
9 " There’s risk inherent in most things that matter. "
10 " I had no idea it would be like this. That having someone on their knees for you would make you so vulnerable. "
11 " Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and everyone else is desperate. "
12 " I stared at him. At this too-thin, too-sincere boy. This person.Because I knew what he meant. I understood exactly. And I’d felt it too, that interior certainty. But over the years, I’d let all the fervour fade. I’d stopped believing in it, somehow. I’d let it become something I did, not something I was. "
13 " The truth is, my granddad’s a pretty biased man. He thinks I’m this astonishing, talented, wonderful person, in spite of all available evidence to the contrary. But that’s sort of what love is, I guess. "
14 " Shouldn’t we have a safeword?”Maybe this isn’t the right thing to say because, at last, he replies, “I’m kneeling at your feet while you wank. If I don’t like it, I can stand up and walk away. "
15 " I want to give him everything, and the things I can't give, I want him to take. "
16 " I don’t see stars, but I see the spaces between them, and all there is . . . is him. "
17 " That’s sort of what love is, I guess. A perpetual state of semideranged partiality. "
18 " This isn’t submission.” “Isn’t it?” “No.” He looks up at me, tired as well, but he’s never looked more beautiful to me than in this moment, strong and open and unafraid like when he surrenders his body. “It’s love. "
19 " He was gorgeous yesterday, kneeling and burnished and kind of a fantasy. And he’s still gorgeous this morning, rumpled and tired and real. "
20 " And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousness knew how to smile. "
