Marie

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

“It landed on Cecilia's hat, which exploded in a puff of smoke and feathers.
Everyone stared at it.
"Oh dear," Constantinopla said after a shocked moment. "What will you do, Cecilia? You're now exposed to the Great Peril."
"I'll protect her from it," Ned said promptly.
Constantinopla gave him a bewildered look. "From the sun?”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“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

“It had become an entirely new game between them; Cora spun herself into a tizzy, and Nate spun her right out of it. It was almost as if she needed him. It was almost as if he liked it.”
― Erin Langston, Forever Your Rogue