James Perry

“It’s fucking terrifying and empowering all at once, because that’s an insane amount of trust, you know? He’s trusting me not to break his limits while we’re both high off endorphins, and I’m trusting him to be honest with me about his limits and needs. I can do anything I want within the confines of those limits. Anything. I want to give him all the experiences he craves, and he wants to give me as much power as I’m willing to take. Fucking delicious.”
― Lindsay Murray, The Goddess

“But often, Chelsey wondered if her father, if people in general, should spend less time protecting daughters and more time worrying about sons. The dangerous things boys do. How they might be raised differently.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“This I will tell you, Star of the Evening,” he said in a cold voice, bowing formally to her, the distant tone of the dromonde in his telling. “That which yields, is not always weak. Choose your victories wisely.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“I cannot help it that Kushiel’s Dart drives me to violent desires; I am an anguissette, and destined to find my greatest pleasure mingled with pain.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar