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When he’d first shipped out to Flanders, his Sergeant had informed the section that “to think was to have already disobeyed.” Charlie had taken the grizzled Sergeant's words to heart, although perhaps not the way the man had intended. If to
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“I mean, I kind of feel alphas are the romance equivalent of an impulse buy. It looks great in the shop but then you get home and it’s like where am I going to put this thing? It doesn’t go with my furnishings and it keeps trying to kiss me punishingly.”
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“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.”
― Waiting for the Flood
― Waiting for the Flood
“But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people.”
― For Real
― For Real
“A soft pulse of desire went through me, not for sex or pain or humiliation or some other release, but for this, this quiet closeness. Someone to hold in the dark.”
― For Real
― For Real
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