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101 " In a dream you can’t really feel. Every touch is subject to your imagination: what you think a kiss feels like, what you think being fucked feels like, what you think real fear feels like. If you’ve never truly felt it, then your mind can’t truly recreate it "
― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)
102 " I had no idea where my bravery had gone. Had I ever really been brave? I don’t think so. I never had to be brave. I settled for being invisible, the person behind the camera. How I wished I could be invisible now "
103 " I’d been wrong, the pain wasn’t better. Oh God, anything but the pain "
104 " Address me as Master. Every time you forget, I will be forced to remind you. So you can choose to obey or choose punishment. It’s entirely up to you. "
105 " He was a masochist. Why else would he torture himself like this "
106 " I’m going to sell you as a pleasure slave to a man I despise "
107 " In real life you had to save yourself "
108 " Her performance as the cute, shy girl was intoxicating. It was as if there were a sign hanging from her neck that read, “I promise, I’ll do whatever you say. "
109 " He was an example of what I could become if I let myself become hard, unforgiving, consumed with rage and vengeance. I couldn’t be like that. I didn’t want to be like him "
110 " I knew once I stepped out of the shower, I would begin the hardest journey of my entire life. I would have to save myself. I would have to be strong and smart and brave. I would have to let the other side of me, the ruthless side, take over and this me…would cease to exist "
111 " So, in the end, what did it matter? He could never have the girl, so why not his vengeance? Didn't he deserve it "
112 " He had put a roof over his head, food in his stomach and women in his bed "
113 " He’d almost thought the word love. Love. What the hell did that word even mean? It got tossed around so flippantly, by everyone. What did it really mean? After all this time and everything that had happened, was he even capable? No. He didn’t think so "
114 " I was my pain and nothing else "
115 " I tried to stop being the pain, tried to let my mind conquer my body "
116 " No one had ever looked at him that way, as if life were insignificant without him and he’d never valued anyone more than he valued himself. Whatever love was, it was a concept he could not grasp "
117 " The story of my life—keeping the inevitable at bay "
118 " Whatever I wish "
119 " When I resisted or showed hesitation, his bare palm slapping against my raw backside became encouragement enough to obey. Surrendering my will, that was the price I paid. "
120 " Intent made all the difference. This was real. Real touching, real intimidation, real man, real fear. "