There are only two reasons why you leave someone you’re still in love with – either it’s the right thing to do, or it’s the only thing to do.

I’m no optimist”, she said as she opened the cabinet door. ” I’m just a realist who smiles too much.

Busy day ahead. Things to do. People to beat. A Dominatrix’s work was never done.

But there was nothing but the cold, hard truth that loving someone and being loved back was only the beginning, not the end, of all the pain.

Not really.

S&M is as psychological as it is physical and sexual, Zach. Imagine being as deep inside a woman’s mind as you are inside her body.

Harm is a bruise on the inside. If you’re a masochist, pain feels like love to you. Not being hurt is what hurts.

Broken love is the most dangerous love. It will slice you open with every touch.

Keeping me a virgin waiting for him for so long proved he owned me even more than fucking me would have.

I will not lose you. I’m sending you away to keep you safe. Do you understand? Say ‘Yes, sir.’”Nora nodded and swallowed a sudden lump in her throat.”Yes, sir.”Soren bent his head and kissed her...

Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches than to see anything under your kilt,” the man’s voice said with an elegant aplomb. “Where...

But I wasn’t done,” she pouted, no longer hungry for anything but him. “Yes, you were.””Yes, sir.””Lay down on your back.””Very yes, sir.

Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

Yeah, equal pay for equal work and our bodies ourselves and Gloria Steinem and all that jazz…but in that dusty dark little corner of every woman’s heart where we keep our maps of Tierra del...

It’s good to live in the past. It’s sexier here

You are something different – something some people find strange and fearful – but what you are is as natural as being male or female.

I’m sad at you.

You call the police if your car gets stolen. You don’t call them for anything that matters.

Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.

I know you want to fuck me. And I know you wish you didn’t. So how about we compromise and you can sit here and say, ‘No, Nora,’ ‘Don’t, Nora,’ ‘Stop, Nora,’ and I’ll ignore...

The kiss surrounded her like air, held her up like water, supported her like the earth and burned her like fire.

Only afterward did the guilt set in–the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

The things she could do with her mouth would blow any man off course.

How are you feeling?””Coffee.

…I know how she must have felt. Pressure to be in charge of the world. So much responsibility. The whole world on her…to let go and just give herself to you, to give up to...

Let go with me. Let me comfort you with my body…there’s no shame in forgetting for a night even if you know you’ll remember in the morning.