“If parents dont want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.Andr Chevalier”

“Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure! Always your goal is pleasure. Pain, yes of course! Yet pain must only be used as a means to add to your sub's sensation of pleasure. To do otherwise is un pch noir - a...”

“If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.André Chevalier”

“Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.”

“There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.”

“Ahmed turned, and leaned into him. Kissed him on the mouth again.Im pretty fucked up, Eshe said.Its a good thing Im perfect, then.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”

“I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am."His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you.""I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fing...”

“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”

“The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.”