“You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If I do all those things for you--soothe you, center you, give you strength--then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“If that’s what it takes to protect you, I will leave you. Even if it kills me.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“How can you make love to me with only the whisper of a touch?
I'm a very resourceful man. I thought you knew.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Nikki, darling, light of my life. Can I have my driver take you to work?”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He shifts so that I can see him better, then draws an "x" over his heart. I raise a brow, and he lifts two fingers in a Boy Scout salute. I hold back a laugh, and he holds up his pinkie finger. "Shall we pinkie swear ?”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He cocks his head to the side as if listening. "There. Did you hear it?"
"What?"
"The clink of coins as I just earned a few thousand more."
I roll my eyes.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He spent so long building walls to protect his privacy that I think he forgot to build a door.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“An entire empire needing his attention, and yet in that moment, I am his whole world.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Poor you.” I twist in his arms and plant a gentle kiss on his chin as he tightens the sash around my waist. “Just like Alexander. No worlds left to conquer.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Please, Damien. You can’t control the world? So what? Control me.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I believe a megalomaniac is someone who suffers from delusions about their own power. Trust me," he says, and this time I am certain I see mirth dancing in his eyes, "I suffer no delusions about the extent of my power.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Thank you. Right emotion. Crappy execution.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“And so I struggle against my bonds, not because I want to get free, not even because I want the pain. I want what it represents. That I am Damien’s. Bound to him. Marked by him. Claimed by him.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Don't you dare feel sorry for 'could have'.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He won't be happy until he's banging the next big thing. And while he'd prefer a female, I think he'd fuck anything that moves if he thinks it'll ease his climb to the top. Male, female, or small farm animal.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I have no idea what time it is in London, and have had too much wine to bother with the math to figure it out.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I want it,” I repeat. “And not because I need the pain. But because I need you.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Your breasts. Your nipples. The insides of your thighs. I want you wet for me, baby. A little drunk and a whole lot wet.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“A game, yes. But I like it. In this game, there are no losers.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I think I understand what Damien needs. Not the pain, but the control.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Mostly, it will make me feel better. Please, Nikki. Right now I’m asking. Don’t make me demand.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I want to soothe him, want to stroke his cheek and run my fingers through his hair. I want to pull his head to my breast and whisper soft words, and I want to make love to him slowly and sweetly until the shadows of the night are gone and the morning light bathes us in color.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“You'll be thinking of me, won't you, baby.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I have to concede that I have often needed things that are not only bad for, but very, very dangerous.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“There is power in his touch, power in the slightest look. He is a hard man who commands a billion-dollar enterprise, and right now I am simply one more thing that he owns.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“You owe me now, mister. You can't expect to steal a woman's pastry and get away with it.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Wherever I am, you belong. You’re mine. Say it.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
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“I didn't know what I wanted. Maybe I never had. The emotional distance was never worth the togetherness, and yet I didn't learn. Nothing had changed. Had he reached for me, I would have forgotten to behave sensibly. Desire has no reason, and the need for intimacy had never stopped. I had not conjured up the images in years, his lips on mine, his hands, the urgency of our hunger. Now I was tormented by the memories.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from Body of Evidence
“I meow now?" hissed J.Lo when she was gone. "What comes next? Do I juggle fire?"
"Look, I'm sorry, but it's good this happened. Mrs. Hoegaarden will probably tell people you meow, and we'll spread the word, too, and soon if anybody hears Pig they'll just think it's you."
"Yes!" droned J.Lo, throwing his hand up. "A foolproof plan! Thank Mother Ocean that you do not use your genius for evil.”
― Adam Rex, quote from The True Meaning of Smekday
“I guess love's kind of like a marshmallow in a microwave on high. After it explodes it's still a marshmallow. but, you know, now it's a complicated marshmallow.”
― Cath Crowley, quote from Graffiti Moon
“When he’d seen the hurt on her face and her torn dress, then found out what Rupert had said to her, it almost ripped out his heart.”
― Melanie Dickerson, quote from The Healer's Apprentice
“And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A secret of the kind that lurks between the two of us has extraordinary power. It burns through the fabric of life like a scorching beam, and yet at the same time it also gives it tensile strength. It forces us to live.”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Embers
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