Netra Antionette > Quotes

“I don’t hand that shit out like it’s a party favor. So if I do it… know that you’re already special.” Her mouth parted, ready to run, but I wasn’t done. “And when I do eat you… when I eat your soul away… just know, when it’s over—I’m fucking your face.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“Healing doesn’t always whisper. Sometimes it roars. And the roar sounds a lot like living again.”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“I leaned forward”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“Kross leaned forward”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“Aunt Sandra started first”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“It may have felt like you were dying on the inside, like everything was falling apart—but really, it was your old self shedding. You had to lose what wasn’t for you to make space for what is.”
― Netra Antionette, Dyed, For This

“And don’t measure your life by somebody elses timeline. You’re rebuilding. That takes time”
― Netra Antionette, Dyed, For This

“But this is who I became when the world kept making me feel like I had to choose between being soft or being safe.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“You are not asking for too much. He’s just offering too little.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“There was something deeply romantic about watching a show with someone who let you pause every ten minutes to discuss character development like it was real life”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“want to be chosen without convincing. Needed without begging. Missed in a way that doesn’t just say I miss you but moves like it. I want forehead kisses and hands on the small of my back. Random texts. Shared playlists. The kind of stuff people forget to ask for when they’re in love.”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“And most importantly? Enter your Heaux Phase. Because healing isn’t always soft. Sometimes it looks like shaking off the weight of your past in a crowded room full of strangers. Sometimes it’s fucking on balconies, kissing men whose names feel like music, and realizing that joy was never meant to be tamed. Healing doesn’t always whisper. Sometimes it roars. And the roar sounds a lot like living again.”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“Second line”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“Then, without a word, her hand trailed down… and landed square on the print in my pants. She rubbed—slow, confident—and leaned in close to whisper right in my ear: “Oh, you’ll find out real soon who’s in control, Kross. And spoiler alert?”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“Someone steady enough for you to fall into and know you won’t hit the ground.”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“Fun can be healing. Pleasure can be sacred. And you don’t owe nobody an apology for enjoying your damn life.”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“Ladies, if he got the nerve to be missing a tooth and talking down on women—just know, you’re not asking for too much… you’re just talking to somebody who ain’t even got all his body parts.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“He let me be big. He let me be loud”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“It’s in my blood. This city teaches you how to survive and celebrate at the same time. Every block’s got pain”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“There’s a guest at the front asking for you by name.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“I’m not waiting for a man this year. Not for flowers”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“That sometimes healing ain’t sitting still. Sometimes it’s moving to music”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“And listen—men be out here talkin’ ‘bout”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“Final rating? 3/10. He gets 2 points for oral and 1 for keeping his socks on so I wouldn’t have to see his feet.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“I came to heal quietly. But I didn’t know that sometimes healing shows up loud”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“I’m thankful that I can sleep peacefully at night knowing I’m not getting cheated on.”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“I called him Father Abraham because—well—he had many sons. And always possibly a daughter or two on the way.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“And just because you were healing,” he continued”
― Netra Antionette, Heaux Phase

“You’re not the one who needs to prove her worth—he’s the one who needs to realize it before he loses access.”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count

“Because let’s be honest—if a man pays top dollar for my filet mignon and two glasses of imported Pinot Noir”
― Netra Antionette, Body Count