“You have trouble in finding answers because you have declared all the relevant material and subjects as taboo.”
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“Eleanor…” He hesitated, and she felt his other hand come up to tilt her face up to his. “I need you…just for a few minutes…”
She read the hunger in his voice, the ache for what he"d lost, the grief…
“Take what you need, Curry,” she said quietly, her body yielding to his in an unspoken invitation.
“I won"t hurt you…” he whispered unsteadily as he bent to her upturned mouth, feeling it open deliciously as his lips touched it so that the restraint went out of him almost immediately. He lifted her across his knees and kissed her like a drowning man who never expected to feel a woman's softness again. There was desperation in the rough mouth invading hers, urgency. His arms contracted and hurt her, bringing a soft moan from her lips.”
― Dream's End
She read the hunger in his voice, the ache for what he"d lost, the grief…
“Take what you need, Curry,” she said quietly, her body yielding to his in an unspoken invitation.
“I won"t hurt you…” he whispered unsteadily as he bent to her upturned mouth, feeling it open deliciously as his lips touched it so that the restraint went out of him almost immediately. He lifted her across his knees and kissed her like a drowning man who never expected to feel a woman's softness again. There was desperation in the rough mouth invading hers, urgency. His arms contracted and hurt her, bringing a soft moan from her lips.”
― Dream's End
“Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit different from the savage in this respect. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”
― The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
― The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
“There's an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England”
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“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic swallow who couldn't bear the prospect of flying all the way back to Africa again. An insomniac hedgehog who couldn't stand the thought of lying awake all winter with no one to talk to.”
― Spill Simmer Falter Wither
― Spill Simmer Falter Wither
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