“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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“But the truth of the matter—as I’ve come to understand it—is that people will ignore every warning sign when blinded by their thirst for something. It’s better to not be thirsty.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Marrow
“Originally, he'd wanted to focus his work on the convict leasing system that had stolen years off of his great-grandpa H's life, but the deeper into the research he got, the bigger the project got. How could he talk about Great-Grandpa H's story without also talking about his grandma Willie and the millions of other black people who had migrated north, fleeing Jim Crow? And if he mentioned the Great Migration, he'd have to talk about the cities that took that flock in. He'd have to talk about Harlem, And how could he talk about Harlem without mentioning his father's heroin addiction - the stints in prison, the criminal record? And if he was going to talk about heroin in Harlem in the '60s, wouldn't he also have to talk about crack everywhere in the '80s? And if he wrote about crack, he'd inevitably be writing, to, about the "war on drugs." And if he started talking about the war on drugs, he'd be talking about how nearly half of the black men he grew up with were on their way either into or out of what had become the harshest prison system in the world. And if he talked about why friends from his hood were doing five-year bids for possession of marijuana when nearly all the white people he'd gone to college with smoked it openly every day, he'd get so angry that he'd slam the research book on the table of the beautiful but deadly silent Lane Reading Room of Green Library of Stanford University. And if he slammed the book down, then everyone in the room would stare and all they would see would be his skin and his anger, and they'd think they knew something about him, and it would be the same something that had justified putting his great-grandpa H in prison, only it would be different too, less obvious than it once was.”
― Yaa Gyasi, quote from Homegoing
“He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, quote from The White Darkness
“Gratitude of mind for the favorable outcome of things, patience in adversity, and also incredible freedom from worry about the future all necessarily follow upon this knowledge. . . . Ignorance of providence is the ultimate of all miseries; the highest blessedness lies in the knowledge of it.60”
― Wayne A. Grudem, quote from Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
“But it was time to stop forgetting the world–and time to start changing it.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shift
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