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81 " Sometimes a gentle lie was enough to remove the weight of a harsh truth. It’s not your fault "
― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)
82 " I didn’t want to open my mouth, if I did, I would just burst into tears and I didn’t wish to cry anymore "
83 " He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within "
84 " I just needed somebody to hold me, somebody to be kind to me, somebody to tell me exactly those words. It’s going to be okay. It wasn’t, of course, I knew that. But I didn’t care. I needed the lie "
85 " Only women were capable of being so fucking sexy you wanted to lick them clean when they considered themselves dirty "
86 " A submissive is a survivor "
87 " No one ever thinks about how lucky they are to see the sun every day. I certainly never did, not until now "
88 " Suddenly I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door "
89 " While his mind had doubts about what he wanted, his body apparently did not "
90 " I wasn’t afraid. I wasn’t all right and never would be "
91 " If it’s anywhere near as bad as what those assholes did to me.... I’m tired of living through this shit just to step into deeper fucking shit. So if all you have planned for me is more torture, I think I’d rather die. Just do me one favor and don’t…I don’t want to die slow "
92 " Inside, he felt a wave of satisfaction as her face crumpled. At the word no, at the word her. Not getting what you wanted was always the first lesson. "
93 " If the first lesson every slave had to learn was to accept that their wishes did not matter, then the first lesson every master had to learn was not to be a slave to their own desires. The logic was simple, to command a slave, you must command yourself "
94 " There was only pain. More pain. Less pain. It was the only constant "
95 " I was sure I’d completely break down if I tried to imagine all the things I wasn’t capable of imagining, because I could imagine some pretty horrible things "
96 " Every villain had a similar speech, “Don’t try to get away, it’s impossible,” but until then, I hadn’t realized how truly terrifying those words were "
97 " I knew I was never going to write a screenplay, or a book, or direct a movie. I felt like I was never going to be anything more than what everyone presumed I would be. Nothing I did mattered. Never did. Never would. And I’d been completely naïve in assuming otherwise, but hoping and dreaming had never seemed such a bad thing "
98 " My hunger was an angry, living thing, clawing and howling along the insides of my skin "
99 " You’re right. I don’t know your real name. But I don’t know mine either and it’s never stopped me from knowing who I am or taking what I want "
100 " Each story wanted, no—needed—to reveal a human fragility, a human bondage which tied people to the things they did and to be the person they held in their heads. Those stories were something true and sometimes horrific, but people were people and the parts didn’t just tell the whole story "