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“In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.”
“The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.”
“Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”
“It's not what you do, it's what it means.”
“You do know youre one of the hot ones, right? You could have any dom in this room if you looked marginally more approachable than an underfed piranha having a bad day.”
“My dominant (no pun intended) discourse seems to be needy as fuck.”
“Nim handed me a mug of tea. I took a sip and it was just how I like it, strong and sweet. If you added psychotic and emotionally unavailable to that, it would also cover my taste in women.”
“His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.”
“This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.”
“I'm not trying to upset you. I just think it's about time you move”
“Theres risk inherent in most things that matter.”
“We are all the playground of angels and demons.”
“I had no idea it would be like this. That having someone on their knees for you would make you so vulnerable.”
“Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and everyone else is desperate.”
“I stared at him. At this too-thin, too-sincere boy. This person.Because I knew what he meant. I understood exactly. And Id felt it too, that interior certainty. But over the years, Id let all the f...”
“Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.”
“Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.”