Bernice Cook

“I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims.”
― C.D. Reiss, Sing

“You’ve been a bitch, goddess. That’s over. From now on, you step when I say walk. You eat when I feed you. You come when I allow it. If I so much as look at your knees, you get on them and open your fucking mouth.”
― C.D. Reiss, Monica

“When this ice cube melts, I’m going to make love to you so slow, everyone in this hotel is going to know my name. It won’t be play. It’s going to be dead serious.”
― C.D. Reiss, Burn

“I don't want lunch, because I'm not hungry," he said. "And I don't want anger management classes, because right now angry is all I have," he spat. "And I don't want condoms, because it seems that I'm incapable of fucking anyone but you.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Stay