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I didn’t let myself call it making love. I think making love must feel a lot like what we were doing, but it almost felt like calling it that might jinx it.
“I mean, I kind of feel alphas are the romance equivalent of an impulse buy. It looks great in the shop but then you get home and it’s like where am I going to put this thing? It doesn’t go with my furnishings and it keeps trying to kiss me punishingly.”
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“But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people.”
― For Real
― For Real
“This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.”
― Waiting for the Flood
― Waiting for the Flood
“The cottage pie was about as wholesome and straightforward as you could get. It was food for winter evenings and happy days. And the salad was rich, complicated, a little bit sweet, and seemed to be trying way too hard to be impressive. We'd both served each other a metaphor.”
― Glitterland
― Glitterland
“A soft pulse of desire went through me, not for sex or pain or humiliation or some other release, but for this, this quiet closeness. Someone to hold in the dark.”
― For Real
― For Real
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