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“How come you’re still inside me? Doesn’t it usually go back inside you?” He licked behind her ear since she’d hidden her face. “As long as it is sheltered in something warm and wet, it doesn’t matter where it is. You said I could be inside you whenever I wanted. I chose to rest with it lying in you.”
― Opal Reyne, A Soul to Keep

“Don’t pretend that you’ve never wanted to be railed by some human eating, dark entity that has a skull for a face – you saw the cover, you knew what you were getting yourself into, and you still chose to open this book and read it.”
― Opal Reyne, A Soul to Keep

“You don’t ever look anywhere else when you come on my tongue, little one. Eyes on me, and my name on those pretty lips.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Stop littering. Yes, baby.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“I want to slap him. But the asshole would probably like it, and then turn around and slap me back. And my dumbass self would probably like it, too.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Sneaking off with random men, little mouse? If I catch his hands anywhere near you, they’ll end up in your mailbox by morning. A”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“My mother said the first boy—or man—is a crush.
You think you love them, but what you really love is how they make you feel. It’s not love. It’s lust. Lust for attention. Lust for danger. Lust to feel special. (...) The second is to learn about yourself. Your first crush has been crushed. You’re sad, but most of all, you’re angry. Angry enough to not let it happen again. (...) Love. When the lessons of your weakness with number one and your selfishness with number two sink in, and you find a medium. When you know who you are and you’re ready to welcome everything he is, and you’re not afraid anymore.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“He’s winning right now. It’s been a week, and I’m right back where I was when I first came here. Making myself unhappy, because… Because I’m only worth anything if someone wants to love me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“No, Uncle Jake.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“To those who have lost. May your waves of grief never be taller than your strength.”
― Emily McIntire, Be Still My Heart

“You want me to fuck you, sweetheart?” He leans in farther, his lips skimming across mine. “Is that what it will take to get you out of my life? Out of my goddamn head?”
― Emily McIntire, Be Still My Heart

“So you found a picture of me after all, huh?” I grin up at him. His brow raises, a flash of victory shining through his eyes. “That’s not you, Detective. That’s Morgan Jensen. And that’s the last day she was seen alive.”
― Emily McIntire, Be Still My Heart

“You are so fucking perfect, Lily. I said you were a gift, but that doesn’t begin to cover it.”
― Katee Robert, Your Dad Will Do

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“If we were friends, I would do something to comfort him. Maybe grab his hand and hold it. But there’s too much inside me that wants to be more than his friend, which means we can’t be friends at all. If an attraction is present between two people, those two people can only be one of two things. Involved or not involved. There is no in-between.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“And that’s why I stay at home and write. I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak