White Horse
Quotes from the Book
I lock doors. I ask questions. I set boundaries.
Despite how lost I feel, this situation is familiar. That someone is asking my consent as if I have a choice. Pay to see a doctor or suffer. Register with the ODR or go to debtors' prison. Go down on Dutch or be humiliated - punished. Impossible choices I've made, if you can call it that. I know when I say, "Yes," it's the same, here.
It's okay to hate yourself and it's okay to enjoy yourself. Sometimes.
I didn't bare my feelings so you could explain why they were wrong. I wanted your support.
My forehead rests against his, trapping beads of water between us. Then, before I can object, he kisses me with soft, gentle lips. I pull back. 'I didn't say you could do that.' 'Not out loud,' he says.
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About K.M. Szpara
About the book
There is no consent under capitalism
Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.
To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future.
Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him. Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brain
Book details
- First published
- 2020
- Author
- K.M. Szpara
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Goodreads rating
- 3.42 (6k ratings)
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