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“Shh,” Kylo whispered. “You can take it.”

"People are messengers, even when the lessons they teach us are brutal and unforgiving."

"I wanted to do more than taste her. I wanted to devour her. I wanted to take her sweetness, her innocence, and forever taint it with my unholy marks of depravity.
I was going to ruin her for all other men."

"Her obedience was as deeply satisfying as it was maddeningly erotic. Evie wanted to be my good girl. She wanted to listen and submit. She just didn’t feel safe enough yet to fully let go. I was a patient man.
Or, rather, a patient monster."

Yum

I could see her now, smoking a secret cigarette in a lavish burgundy robe as she read a mystery novel over a glass of wine. Or maybe she had a suitor over.
Or two.

“Choosing meaning over meaninglessness is vulnerable, and vulnerability isn’t wrong. It’s beautiful and brave.”

"Reality. I’d never been a fan of the notion. Perhaps why I spent so much time escaping to other worlds between the pages of a book."

"I wanted to feel what the characters of my favorite novels felt—that undeniable soulmate love." SAME

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