Solace Ames > Quotes

“I’d gone beyond fascination into straight-out worship, and I’d lost the way back. It”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“He wore a Panama hat, dark glasses with smoky round lenses and a gray suit that must have been tailored. I don’t know much about high fashion, I just know a good fit. The look reminded me of old Hollywood. Most men look silly to me in hats, but the effortless elegance of the tilt—the way it angled and contrasted with the level line of his shoulders—seemed totally organic. Like he could walk into a hurricane and come out the other side with his hat exactly the same angle.”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“My body could take this, and much more, but everything else—mind, soul, I didn’t even fucking know the name—was shattering into pieces, too fragile. It’s all right. He’s holding me. It’s all right. I cried. “Cariño.” “Don’t stop.” “I won’t.” His fingertips brushed against my ruined, aching eyes, gentle as rain against glass.”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“You have to play through the pain, in the beginning.” I looked up to meet his eyes. The way he looked at me, the way he measured me, was thrilling and terrifying all tangled together. I couldn’t measure him back. I just couldn’t. It was fucking impossible. “I’ll do my best,” I choked out. “I’m not scared.” “Good. I don’t want you to be scared.” And if you did? Downstairs,”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“Not pleasure, not pain—those were just steps along the path. It was transport. It was going to another plane of existence, not out of your body but along with your screaming, shivering, lovely body, traveling together all bound up in one whole.”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“I get interrogated pretty much everywhere I go—who are you, what are you, what do you speak, what’s wrong with you and why don’t you respect yourself—so I take”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“No, it’s cool. I have some introverted tendencies. Too many names and faces and it’s information overload, and having an excuse to go off and take a break in the kitchen really works for me.”
― Solace Ames, The Submission Gift

“I forgave myself for everything I’d ever done to my body, every hurt I’d allowed the world to pierce me with.”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“The promise in those words drove me out of my mind. I swear the world went soft around the edges, and Emanuel’s hold on me suddenly wasn’t nearly tight enough. His arm draped loosely around my shoulder might as well have been torture, because the body language was all wrong and I didn’t want to be protected, didn’t want to feel his cool regard—I wanted him to hold me down and fucking claim me. Miles”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“He was improvising, playing the two of us like fine instruments.”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“Thank you...Sir.” I tried a simple word myself, and it rolled nicely out of my mouth and fell into the space between us like an intricately wrapped gift. I wasn’t sure if either of us needed to open it, but it was there. He”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract