Roberta Blank mccllen > Roberta's Quotes

“Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me. ”
― Marquis de Sade

“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
― Marquis de Sade

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.”
― Marquis de Sade

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
― Marquis de Sade

“How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.”
― Marquis de Sade, Les Prosperites du Vice

“It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns”
― D.A.F. Marquis de Sade

“It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.”
― D.A.F. Marquis de Sade

“Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other”
― Marquis de Sade

“Sex without pain is like food without taste”
― Marquis de Sade

“You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.”
― Marquis de Sade

“The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.”
― Marquis de Sade

“My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.”
― Marquis de Sade, Juliette

“One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.”
― Marquis De Sade

“...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born...”
― Marquis De Sade

“Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.”
― Marquis De Sade

“The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

“Can we become other than what we are?”
― Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade

“Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.”
― Marquis de Sade, Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

“The truth will make you odd.”
― Judy Blume

“That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.”
― Judy Blume, Forever...

“Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. ”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

“you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain”
― Judy Blume

“You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."

"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

“Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands”
― Judy Blume, Forever...

“some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.”
― Judy Blume, Tiger Eyes

“Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?”
― Judy Blume, Forever...

“Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”
― Judy Blume