Amanda

“Do you hate me?" I asked.
He frowned and shifted forward, closer, and held open his arms. I went into them and let him hold me.
"You know I don't. Jude, sometimes you're so fucking childlike, it scares me a little." He said, "I think I hate the person who hurt you, but then I remember that he was a child too.”
― Scarlett Drake, Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining

“As long as Caspien Deveraux breathed, I would love him.”
― Scarlett Drake, Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining

“What on earth was wrong with me that I wasn't satisfied with this? Here was a man holding me to his chest and telling me my comfort was important to him, my feelings were important to him and yet my fucking soul ached for someone who'd thought nothing of either.”
― Scarlett Drake, Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining

“As so often with the King's commandments, a measure that was designed for specific purposes had wide and unintended consequences.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day