Donnie Nelson

“the bedside, stripped him of his clothes, and introduced Károly to the many delicious debaucheries men did with one another in private. In the manner of a virgin youth who had barely conceived of such pleasures, Károly went along with thunderstruck abandon and great multitudes of gratitude.”
― Andrew J. Peters, Slashed and Mashed: Seven Gayly Subverted Stories

“You can try to fill it with whatever you like. Wine. Women. Work. In the end, a hole is still a hole.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“The moment I saw you, I felt a tug. You are the feeling of falling, the tidal waters, the way a living thing will always turn, seeking light. It isn’t that I think you are good or kind, or even that I love you. It is only that, the moment I saw you, I knew I would seek you out. Just as I sought the deathless waters. Just as I sought my brother. Just as I seek all things—without thought, with nothing but want.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“She looked and felt… nothing. The nothing was so solid, so complete, that she knew it wasn’t true emptiness or true neutrality. It was a feeling like a fist around a throat. “Princess,” the”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne