Sarah Michelle Lynch > Quotes

“Love alone can’t fix me. I’m broken in ways you can’t imagine. Daily, I’m coping with scenarios I build in my head… scenarios involving you in danger. I see danger everywhere. It’s who I am, what I do. I can’t help the way I feel. I need to closet you, coddle you, protect you against my bosom and smother you.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“He and I were both dominant beings and to submit to each other was our war of attrition; giving up everything we were to one another was beautiful, but at the same time chafing. We’d forever be warring because we were both so strong, so defiant. The mental struggle for personal and interpersonal dominance was real.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“Dominating the world by day, most powerful men needed to submit by night to maintain the polarity of their tastes, indeed their lives, if just for a moment. But it was also about men in general, too – because men generally don’t enjoy hurting women. But a woman hurting a man? Most people would admit there was something nasty and naughty about it all. And right. Just so right. Needing pain was Shay’s dirty little secret because by day she promoted femdom, but in the very late hours she needed someone to give her pain, a deep pain nobody but Teddy could deliver, not in the same way. Deep, soul-churning pain from the one man she’d ever loved. The one man she’d ever love.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“I don’t quit now, I’ll never quit, and if I stay here, I’ll be the girl with the blue hair and I’ll be known for nothing else.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty

“Dommes didn’t react; they just walked away.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Fix

“I can still feel, taste and smell that year. Like it’s cemented in my soul. Well, I guess it is.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty

“Do the things I never did. Swear. Wear neon colours. Skydive. Climb fences. Ride horses naked. Say obscene things. Make love. Shout at people when they piss you off. Toot your horn. Scream. Become tainted and be proud of it. It’s who you are. You came into this world naked and blank, like a canvass, but I want you to go screaming out of it covered in every colour of the rainbow.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Tainted Lovers

“People not versed in our culture only ever imagine that the person at risk in a BDSM dynamic is a sub.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Contract

“You can’t help who you love, Ciara! And sometimes it isn’t the right person… and sometimes it isn’t the person you marry!”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Fix

“This session is over. You don’t make demands of a Mistress for the purpose of sport.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Fix

“Why on earth would I try to escape the vile tyrant keeping me held hostage? I have no idea.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Contract

“Love her, not gently or frivolously, but like your whole life depends on her, like she lights up the very fire that keeps you burning…”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty

“I was no longer myself, I was a conduit for his deviance, for his dark pleasures. I was on fire and mentally pleading with him to touch my clit and give me the gentleness which would give way to dangerous, brutal pleasure.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“I read somewhere that the man who has your anger has control of you, and I understood that already, having only been in the same room as him for mere minutes.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Contract

“We were just meant to be and fate in all her conniving, wicked glory, wouldn’t have had this union any other way.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty

“I wanted to be a butterfly caught on the breeze, floating and free finally, my knowledge of who this man really was fulfilled after just one night of no more lies, no more pain – just love.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“The clouds were clearing and yet no sunshine was pouring through, only the icy terror of revelations unleashed – revelations dark and dangerous.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“A blast of whooshing pleasure swept through me and I fell over the other side, into sweet currents of relaxing little judders. The gentleman pulled away and I lay there still sprawled and used. I didn't care. I'd been indoctrinated in the ways of the flesh and my exposure to it was like a drug.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, A Fine Profession

“You’ve made me see that love is so simple. It’s just love. It heals. It cures. It’s pure.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty

“I saw the confliction in his eyes and I danced internally amid that confliction, swallowing it like melted chocolate. This power I held over him was miraculous.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“Not becoming the hate has been the biggest test of my life, one I’ve won, but one I still have to battle everyday.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty

“I drift through forests in my dreams, I swim the lake I imagine for myself when I’m sad. It’s so blue and clear. I scoop some water into my hands as I tread water and I can see right through it, almost as if it’s air. Tiny, luminescent fish live at the bottom of the pool and wink at me as I swim naked and free above them, my hair spilling out around me.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Tainted Lovers

“She’d never seen him cry before – not really cry, with snot and noise and heaving sobs – and as she looked down into his tears, she saw within them words of love he’d spoken and images of times they’d shared. He shed them all away for her sake – because no longer could she cry.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Tainted Lovers

“I kept tapping my pen against the blank page, realising there were words inside me, but I wasn’t ready to put them down yet. I wouldn’t force them out and risk creating something watered down or diplomatic, so I’d have to wait for the day when I had enough strength to give my all to the story of someone who ended up marrying a billionaire, but started out life feeling very sorry for herself.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“Nobody has forever; you of all should know that. We have moments, mere moments in time, during which we’re given brief windows to steal a smidgen of happiness for ourselves. Don’t you see? This is our moment. Ask yourself, is this what Daltrey would have wanted for you? Eh? Confronting some rogue to get justice for people who are dead and no longer care? Wherever your people are, and wherever Daltrey is, they are somewhere better and the only piece of heaven on earth we have is us, and you’re neglecting our chance here, to be happy. All you keep thinking about is righting the wrong, but the only wrong is inside your mind. The only wrong is you.” I gasped, breathless, regretting some of my words but not all.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Fix

“I was strong as long as I never looked into his eyes.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Contract

“All I wanted was to put my arms around him and hold him close, tell him he didn’t have to be like this anymore. He didn’t have to live a life like this.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Contract

“You’ll run again… but what if you get hurt this time? I want to stop you from running before you injure yourself or do something silly. Please tell me what would make you stop wanting to run.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Contract

“We have to learn to listen to our hearts, as broken as they might be. Our hearts tell us everything we need to know, even if we don’t want to hear it.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty

“People do strange things when they’ve been inspired. Moreover they’re moved to achieve something they never would’ve done before.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, Hetty