Jean Thesquare > Quotes

“For all your talk of consent, you’ve yet to give me anything to say yes to.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“The club had always understood something most of the world did not: that the most dangerous people were rarely the loudest. They were the ones invited back.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“If they wanted to shut one door, I would buy the building across the street and open ten more.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“I am furious with discipline.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“Revenge that can stop itself,” she said, “has begun to become something else.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“A convenient lie, because revenge is easier to plan when people mistake silence for improvement.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“Guilt is what people use when they want to feel moral without changing anything.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“Erotica and fine art," he mused, stepping a fraction closer. "Both deal in desire, in power. The right balance of restraint and indulgence.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“The danger to reputation did not begin when girls spoke. It began when adults decided silence was cheaper.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“I disapprove of men who mistake geography for permission.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“Oh, darling. I am France now. They call me ‘a new era’s icon of seduction.’ I’m basically Brigitte Bardot meets Marie Antoinette… if Marie Antoinette had done a lingerie campaign in the Louvre.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“But I would remember sooner that a beautiful story can become a locked room.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“With him. With you. With the fact that I can want him and then sit here and want you and not know whether that makes me false or greedy or just completely ordinary in a way no one bothered to mention.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“The kiss was gentle at first, attentive, like she was listening through the lips.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“This,” she said, “is not only for men. Not only a tool for seduction. Lingerie is for you. It is power, confidence, control.”
She picked up a deep burgundy set, running her fingers over the lace.
“When you wear the right lingerie, you feel it,” she continued. “It changes how you move, how you think. It reminds you that you are a woman who should be adored, worshipped.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“A man who ruins your lingerie, replaces it, feeds you, and still manages to disappear before dawn? That’s practically foreplay.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“She preferred appearing, like a draft under a locked door or a crime with good tailoring.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“I had learned that no could be received without punishment and that asking did not make desire smaller, only cleaner.”
― Jean Thesquare

“the kind of place where reputations were as meticulously maintained as the floral arrangements, where discretion was served alongside the foie gras, and scandal was only acknowledged in hushed, horrified whispers.”
― Jean Thesquare, AcClaim: A Sultryverse Story

“My world was very fond of telling young women that any room where desire stopped hiding must be crude, dangerous, desperate — or all three — and because my world lied often but with excellent diction, I had believed at least the outline.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“Everything may be asked," they said. "Nothing may be taken. Attention. Touch. Privacy. Silence.Forgiveness. None of it is owed because it is wanted.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“Safety was what adults wrapped around cages before handing girls the key from the outside.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“When feral is all you’ve got left, fierce is the only way forward.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“We do not expose girls. We expose the men who counted on their silence. Reputation is not innocence. Proof will follow.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller