Helena

“I have fantasies about being tied up and have always been too embarrassed to tell anyone about it. It's a cliche to want someone to take control because I am tired of having to be in control of myself but desire have never cared about literary tropes.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“He's not wrong. There are ways in which the world has destroyed me and there are ways in which I have welcomed that destruction. As much as I want to deny it, there is a kind of pleasure that comes from being tied up with a knife against my throat.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“A shard of broken glass, shaped like a dagger, its end tapering to an evil-looking point.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, House of Glass

“It never occurred to me to let things end there, for the kiss to be just a kiss. I was always escalating things with men far beyond what they were meant to be and then wondering why I'd left every situation with a wound.”
― Tasha Coryell