Chrystal

“Oh Eve,” he whispers on my lips. “You need me so much. Almost more than I hunger for you. It’s a real shame to have to stop now.” Stop? I repeat to myself, feeling a sudden cold. Before I’m able to hold back, I whisper: “Why?” in such a broken tone that it’s almost a moan. “Because I don’t want to be your lover, Eve,” he says in a louder voice, holding my face in his hands. Then he leans back over me and rests his cheek on mine to speak directly in my ear. “I want to be your only lover,” he whispers. “I don’t want to share you with anyone.” A moment later, he’s gone.”
― R. Otic, THE GIFT An Education in Pleasure

“Tucking her hair behind her ear, I meet her eyes. “I’m not jealous, I’m protective. Jealous is when you want something that’s not yours. Protective is looking after what’s yours already.”
― Kendall Ryan, All the Way

“One day at a time. That’s all it takes to get through anything.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Fire Between High & Lo

“If you need to fall, fall into me.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us