The Drowsy Bookworm

“It was like being owned.” “Some women like that.” “Not me.” “Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.” “I doubt it. I couldn’t breathe with him kissing me.” “One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“There’s something very satisfying about outwitting religious fanaticism.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows