Marie

“Are you holding yourself back from your natural inclination to choke me?’
He laughs, incredulous. ‘What?’
‘You always touch my neck when we’re doing things.’
‘Things?’ His hips start moving, too slowly, an unbearable drag.
I groan. ‘Kissing, touching, fucking now.’
His expression softens into something achingly vulnerable. ‘I like feeling your heart beat fast for me.’ A secret revealed in the middle of our sex. ‘That’s how I know you like me.”
― Jessica Joyce, You, with a View

“I’d do it all over again to feel an ounce of our happiness”
― Riss M. Neilson, A Love Like the Sun

“Look at the view,’ I say against his mouth when we pull back for a breath. His thumb grazes over the plane of my cheek. ‘I am.”
― Jessica Joyce, You, with a View

“I'll take you to appointments, hold your hand when it hurts.' Tears slip from his eyes, and I start to cry remembering the ultrasound. 'I'll give you pieces of me if I'm a match, Laniah, because I know they'll be home inside of you. I don't care if you meet someone else and fall in love, it will be me here, regardless.”
― Riss M. Neilson, A Love Like the Sun