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“She knows that a small, soft animal lives inside her, and that animal wants to be loved completely, flat on its back, kissed and cuddled. She wants that [...]
- LARISSA PHAM, AUTHOR OF "Trust”
― R.O. Kwon, Kink: Stories

“He had been been patting his handkerchief between his palms; now he opened his handkerchief and reached out and wiped my forehead. "You're all I've got," he said then, with a shy, pained grin. "Be careful."
"Daddy," I said. And began to cry. And if speaking had been agony, this was worse and yet I could not stop.
And my father's face changed. It became terribly old and at the same time absolutely helplessly young ...
"Don't cry," he said, "don't cry.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I am an eater who enjoys structured magic. I don't feel courageous enough to let myself eat whatever I want, because I don't want to face the wrath of what my mind will do to me after. I have a vested interest in keeping things under control, because when I lose my illusions of control I get very scared.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I do remember that as a young girl I prayed for beauty. I'd lie in bed, squeeze my eyes shut, and concentrate so hard that I broke out in a sweat underneath the covers. I believed that for God to take you seriously, you had to make your mind as blank as possible and then focus on the expanding spots of light behind your eyelids and think only of the one thing you desperately wished for.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body