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“Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close around my scars. He kissed away their ugliness. His lips parted in tingling butterfly kisses that drained the strength from my knees. I realized he was mouthing words against my skin.

Not words. Just one word.

Mine.”
― Rose Christo, Gives Light

“Something strange started to rage inside me, hearing you inhale sharply as I tried to kiss those scars away or etch them deeper into your skin, wanting to mark you in an entirely different way.”
― D.S. Wrights, The Beast In Me