Amelie

“Punishment? You don’t have any right to punish me. And I can curse. I choose not to most of the time, but don’t think it doesn’t go through my head, asshole. I was trying to give you something. I was trying to give you my body.”
“That’s where you fucked up, little girl. I don’t want your body. I want your soul. I want your everything. And I definitely want your orgasms. I want them all. I’ll be a greedy bastard, savoring them and hoarding them all for myself. You wanted to give me your body? I can buy that on a street corner, sweetheart. You’re the one who’s being selfish now.”
“How is it selfish to offer to have sex? I don’t understand what you want.”

“First off, I want you to stop hiding yourself from me. You’re the one making this tawdry by pretending it’s dirty and not worthy of the light of day.”
“I didn’t mean it that way.”

“We’re going to do this my way. We tried yours and it didn’t work, so I’m taking control. I should have done it in the first place.”
― Lexi Blake, A Dom is Forever

“Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Married by Morning

“I'm not the marrying kind -"
St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight

“With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man."

"That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon