Role Reversal Quotes

“Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“He lay there and felt something and then her hand holding him and searching lower and he helped with his hands and then lay back in the dark and did not think at all and only felt the weight and the strangeness inside and she said, “Now you can’t tell who is who can you?”
“No.”
“You are changing,” she said. “Oh you are. You are. Yes you are and you’re my girl Catherine. Will you change and be my girl and let me take you?”
“You’re Catherine.”
“No. I’m Peter. You’re my wonderful Catherine. You’re my beautiful lovely Catherine. You were so good to change. Oh thank you, Catherine, so much. Please understand. Please know and understand. I’m going to make love to you forever.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Reversing roles sometimes is good. I’ll free you from having to be in control all the time. I’ll take you places you’ve never been.”
― Scarlet Risque, Red Hourglass

“He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it’ll cost me my sanity. In our dawning, mutual intimacy, I induce him to open the little slit in the head of his penis so I can put my clitoris inside and fuck him.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

“Here I am, after all, welcome home, I'm yours. To which Henry replied: When I wanted you you were not mine, when I needed you you rejected me. Why should I cherish you now?”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf ears, the child delivers them back with a simplistic effectiveness using their own words instead of the ones we fumbled and stumbled over, attempting to sound sage.”
― John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

“They were grown-ups. Didn't the stupid man realize that he no longer had the power to send anyone to their room? They could stand up and leave whenever they liked. They could move interstate or overseas. They could choose to never visit, to never call, to never have children.

The children had all the power now.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall