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“My name’s Oliver. Though if you want to call me Pretty Eyes Park again, I promise I’ll still come running.”
― Charlie Adhara, The Wolf at the Door

“Oh, this is a real emergency?” Alec exclaimed, and brightened immeasurably. For a moment Magnus felt pleased that a maddened werewolf was ravaging downtown Manhattan, if it made Alec look like that. “I figured it was one of those things where you arranged to have a friend call you so that you could get out of a sucky date.”

“Ha ha,” said Magnus. “I didn’t know people did that.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“How was I in control when he pinned me down?
“You set the limits; you choose the pace. You say go, we go. You say stop, we stop. You submit because you want to, because you trust me to take care of you and not to take advantage. It’s not something I force or take from you, it’s something you offer.” He pecked the pads of each of my fingers. “You offer me control, trusting me not to exploit your vulnerability, and I accept the responsibility of caring for you, your body, and your pleasure, and trust you to be honest with me about your needs and boundaries.”
― Nikole Knight, Betrayal

“We’re all monsters sometimes,” he said. “At one point or another. Every single one of us.” “Sometimes, you have to be a monster to defeat the demons,”
― Nikole Knight, Elysium