Chrystal

“Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: Audio only. Camera is faulty.
Ezra: Okay, well for the benefit of the sight-impaired, I am now raising my… oh, dear… yes, it's my MIDDLE finger at Mr. Postgrad here.
Interviewer: Mr. Mason...
Ezra: Now I'm wiggling it.
Interviewer: Terminating interview at 13:58 on 03/19/75.
Ezra: Look at it wiggl-
-audio ends-”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Let me set this straight in case there’s any question about how many girls I’ve had or this whole girl-of-the-month thing that keeps popping up. It’s a rumor people like to perpetuate because of who I am. I date girls and we break up and I really don’t think about them much again. This isn’t that. You aren’t them. Never in a million years.” She kisses me. And shit, the world is golden.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Boyfriend Bargain

“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