Alexandria House > Quotes

“With his eyes clamped shut, he released a groan as he slid out and back inside me. I lay there and watched him, tears spilling from my eyes as I wondered what the hell was happening and how on this earth anything, and I mean anything, could feel like this. Because I’d be damned if his dick wasn’t made of pixie dust, blood diamonds, that delicious Olive Garden unlimited salad, and childhood dreams or some shit.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Hold You

“He threatened to, and I quote, ‘Beat my ass until it roped like okra.’ Never heard that shit before.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Please You

“Talk down about yourself. You deserve better. I’m your better.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Love You

“I don’t hate white people, I hate white supremacy. I hate white lies and not the innocent lies they label as white lies. You see how perverse that shit is? A white lie is an innocent lie? What the fuck is an innocent lie? That shit don’t exist. But that’s what they do…they make stuff benefit them. They stole this land, then made it illegal to steal. They murdered all them damn Native Americans and then made murder illegal. They lie, but when they lie, it’s okay. Everybody else lies and it’s perjury. Naw, I don’t hate white people; I just don’t fear them or believe everything they try to feed us, and I’m committed to furthering my race, a race a lot of them seem to want to exterminate. I ain’t one of them niggas who talks black and fucks white, because that shit is backwards as hell to me. Them niggas are breeding themselves out and ain’t got sense enough to see it. And all they can say is black women are too difficult to be with. What kinda weak beta male shit is that?”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Free You

“That’s love. Even in its infancy, love takes work, but it’s work you don’t mind doing, because you know the benefits outweigh the effort.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Free You

“and when her walls began to shudder around my dick”
― Alexandria House, Memphis

“Shit, that’s what I said! A sectional! You know…my boy, Lunch Meat, was so big, they had to do a sectional on Lou. Ask your doctor about it. You don’t want that baby to wreck your shop, if you know what I mean. That baby be done ripped you from the rooter to the tooter. Won’t be nothing left down there but memories and wishes.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Please You

“I love you so much, I would walk naked in the snow just to kiss your lips,”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Please You

“Up until that night at the club, my pelvic region had been hibernating. Big South had awakened it, and now, everything down there was acutely alive and active like molecules colliding in the atmosphere. It felt as if someone was throwing a damn rave in my yoni.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Love You

“Well”
― Alexandria House, Shu

“I can’t. You’re in my soul now. You’re a part of me. I’ll love you until the day I die, and then my damn ghost will love you.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Show You

“I have an obsessive personality. It’s something I inherited from my mother, one of the hallmarks of her mental illness. I was just fortunate I hadn’t inherited her other issues; the obsessive personality was more than enough of a burden. It makes you dissect and scrutinize the smallest of incidents, turn situations over in your head endlessly, analyze every syllable of an old conversation, ask interminable internal questions, and ponder the consequences of your actions fruitlessly. Hell, I’ve been known to ruminate over things I said years ago.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Love You

“Hell”
― Alexandria House, Shu

“Earl was telling me about this song. It say something about eating groceries on your woman’s booty. I thought you should know that since y’all honeymooning and shit.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Show You

“But aren’t we a couple now? I mean, if you’re my man, why would you need to keep pursuing me? You can’t pursue something that’s already yours.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Love You

“But will she lower her guard and let him hold her?”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Hold You

“sure do. I wanna eat you and lick you until you forget I have a wife.”
― Alexandria House, Should've Been

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Show You

“Have you ever met someone whose soul pairs so well with yours that you wonder how you've managed to survive this life without knowing them? That's how I felt last night.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Show You

“what was behind her smile. I could virtually feel her sadness.”
― Alexandria House, PERSONAL

“See, I know what I’m talking about,” Uncle Lee continued. “I ain’t fucked laying down since 1984. Now, I know you used to them white girls. They like to be on top. But black women like for you to get that thang from the back. You gotta stand up in it, like that songs says. Matter of fact, you need to play that song while you stand up in it. You gotta strip down to your damn church socks and grabbed them hips and pow! Pow! Pow! Gotta hit that jeep spot, Nephew!”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Show You

“My eyes popped open in the darkness of the hotel room,”
― Alexandria House, Set

“I like you, Leland,” or “I want you, Leland,” shit, even, “I love you, Leland,” but never once had a woman told me, “I need you, Leland.” I’d never even heard that from family members since my brother, Everett, literally took care of everything and everyone.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Hold You

“I think about you all the time. You think about me?”
― Alexandria House, Should've Been

“Anyhow, I’m glad you straightened yourself out and got you a nice African wife, Neil. I know that’s a dream come true for you. Boy, you gonna have fuuuuun tonight with that jungle boogie! Gon’ get you some wild cat! Cheers, y’all!”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Free You

“You really have no idea how beautiful you are, do you? I mean, you have no clue how luminous this brown skin is…” He dragged the back of his hand down my arm. “Or how your lips feel like clouds.” He softly kissed me. “Or how I can see the past, present, and future in your eyes, how I can feel freedom when I’m inside you. You. Are. Beautiful. You are my world and my afterlife, the food of my soul, my thirst-quencher. You are my beginning, my end, and everything in between. My Oshun, my sangoma, my balm, my pain relief. You’re my home, baby. My home.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Free You

“Oh”
― Alexandria House, Lilith

“think what you did made my heart cry. No one has ever protected me or defended me in my whole life before. Thank you for doing that for me.”
― Alexandria House, Shu

“He likes pastry, not sweet potato pie. Croissants, not cornbread. Kale, not collard greens. Ham and cheese, not ham hocks. Mayonnaise not sandwich spread.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Show You

“Then let me free you of those expectations, give you what I have to give.”
― Alexandria House, Let Me Free You