“His touch was like heroin in my veins, and I was a grateful addict.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“I'm your responsiblity now. You created me. You made me this way. This is your fucking mess. If you suddenly care about morality, then don't make me go. "Let me stay. I'll be your slave. I'll be your whore. I'll never fight you. I won't disobey. Whatever you want, just don't make me go back. Please. I can't live in that world anymore. You know it's true. I just want to be yours.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“I know I need him. And I hope he needs me. What we have is fucked up and twisted, but it serves a need. I know I've always been wired differently. He only brought to the surface what was already there.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“If you haven't developed morals by the time you start reading erotica, it's probably too late.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“He always gave me choices. Or maybe what he gave me was force wrapped in the pretty package of pretend free will.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“Over months of being with him, my prison had become my sanctuary, and now that I was free, the world was my prison. There was nowhere left to run.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“I'd convinced myself it would have been different if he'd been as ugly on the outside as he was on the inside, but he wasn't. He was cruel beauty, a sculpture, a god, and I couldn't tear my eyes from him. I'd seen his expression soften in the dungeon with the whip. I'd do anything to have him look at me like that again, no matter how insane he was.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“People always think that they'll never break. They'll never give in, CIA operatives somehow crack, but not them”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“Blackmail.
It was the socially-approved equivalent of blow me, and I'll get you some of the good stuff.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“He'd gone from being just my tormentor to being my tormentor and protector, though I needed protection from nothing but him.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“Can I take a few things?"
Mementos. How fucked up was that? I wanted reminders of my imprisonment.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“And that was when I knew. I had to kill him.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“Fiction had sold me pretty lies, and none of them did me any good now.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“In our modern age, some are concerned about the practice of keeping animals caged. Although this is a valid concern, unfortunately once an animal has lived in captivity for so long, it’s more cruel to release them back into the wild. They no longer have the survival skills. This is more true for those born into captivity, but is also”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“I dog-eared the page and closed the book, letting it fall to the floor and looked up at him. The”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“I couldn’t scream because he was taking such good care of me. He’d gotten me bandages. The”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“Monsters aren’t supposed to be beautiful.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“No . . . please don’t leave me. I’ll be your whore. I’ll be whatever you want, please.” I”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“His touch was like heroin in my veins,and I was a grateful addict.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“He smiled that soulless smile that made me feel warm and like I was dying all at the same time.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“I found myself wanting the monster because it was honest, a level of honesty most go their entire lives without confronting, always content to hide behind their social masks and business cards. It”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“Where he’d wanted her to remain very still, she saw he’d spelled out a word with wax. Mine. She”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“His hands skimmed across my flesh, cupping my breasts, stroking my back where the blood was slowly pooling. His touch was like heroin in my veins, and I was a grateful addict.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“And despite all the empowering speeches and the women’s movement, in the grand scheme . . . women are prey.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“When you’re a part of society there are certain behaviors that aren’t okay. If you do these behaviors and then feel nothing, that’s worse. But I’ve been trying to determine when I’ve ever been a part of society.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“You see, I've never been free. Not one day of my life. I've always given in to the wants and needs of those around me. My confidence has always been a social mask and my success as a motivational speaker was because my mask was just so damn convincing. At times, even to me.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“But I've never followed my own will. What I wanted. It was always what you guys wanted. Or what society wanted. Or I almost took my pills like a good little girl, had my cathartic trauma moment, and put the pieces of my world back together so everyone could say how brave and good I was. Almost. But I couldn't. As I write this letter I can't decide whether I'm acting from strength or weakness, but I know that I'm acting for the first time of my own will. Yes, I know that's hard to accept.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
“unfortunately once an animal has lived in captivity for so long, it’s more cruel to release them back into the wild. They no longer have the survival skills.”
― Kitty Thomas, quote from Comfort Food
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“Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.”
― Jessica Park, quote from Flat-Out Love
“And you are?” “Not important. All you need to know is that you’re lucky you’re so cute, and I decided to help you.” “But not prom queen cute.” “Definitely not.” They both smiled,”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from UnEnchanted
“Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went. Bosch”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo
“Because complex animals can evolve their behavior rapidly. Changes can occur very quickly. Human beings are transforming the planet, and nobody knows whether it’s a dangerous development or not. So these behavioral processes can happen faster than we usually think evolution occurs. In ten thousand years human beings have gone from hunting to farming to cities to cyberspace. Behavior is screaming forward, and it might be nonadaptive. Nobody knows. Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.” “Yes? Why is that?” “Because it means the end of innovation,” Malcolm said. “This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they’ll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That’s the effect of mass media—it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there’s a McDonald’s on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there’s less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity—our most necessary resource? That’s disappearing faster than trees. But we haven’t figured that out, so now we’re planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it’ll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity. Oh, that hurts. Are you done?” “Almost,” Harding said. “Hang on.” “And believe me, it’ll be fast. If you map complex systems on a fitness landscape, you find the behavior can move so fast that fitness can drop precipitously. It doesn’t require asteroids or diseases or anything else. It’s just behavior that suddenly emerges, and turns out to be fatal to the creatures that do it. My idea was that dinosaurs—being complex creatures—might have undergone some of these behavioral changes. And that led to their extinction.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Lost World
“You're much shorter than my mom."
"Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle.
"That's no way to talk to a vampire."
"Bloodsucking brat."
"Better" he said.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ghost Town
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