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“His lips twitch the tiniest bit. “Are you really that naive you think sex and fondness have anything to do with each other?” No, of course not. But there is a large distance between fondness and wanting to murder someone. Isn’t there? “No. I guess I’m not.” I guess if he can handle his side of things, all he has to do is bite me to get me onboard.”
― Katee Robert, Court of the Vampire Queen

“benevolent barnacles.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“His hands would have slid to my waist, the calluses scraping my skin.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo