“I would paint this fucking town in red if I have to until I found her.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“I’m not afraid to die. I’m just unwilling.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“I hated her with everything I had because it was the only emotion I had to give. I realized, even then, I was giving her everything.
She was the bane of my existence, and at the very same, the reason I cared to exist.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“You don’t know me beyond my cock, Monroe. Don’t pretend otherwise.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“Making her fear me was only half the battle. I needed to make her want me, too.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“If you think I’m trying to scare you, then my seduction skills need serious work. Besides, I don’t need fear to control you anymore. My cock is pretty good at making you do what I want.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“She isn’t yours to protect.” “She’s my friend.” “And she is JUST mine.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“One man’s greed is another man’s tragedy.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“I was as much her sexual prisoner as she was mine. Those would be the times I took her the hardest and unleashed my cruelty on her.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“As for Monroe, I would stay away for now, but I had no intention of letting her go. She would have to be pried from my cold, lifeless fingers.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“She now had a faraway look in her eyes, and I experienced the unfamiliar, yet intense need to hold her and protect her from the world, but most of all from me.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“I spent my whole life afraid of you. You were the monster under the bed and the devil who stole my soul.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“I heard you… before you left. I heard you, and now I see that you were right. You don’t deserve to love me.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“My only mission became to save her. I wanted to be the very person I grew up hating. I wanted to be her hero.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“I spent the last eleven years making your life hell. I’m ready to spend the rest of mine making it up to you. Spoiling you is just the start. Will you let me?”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“What if I can get you the information you need without setting him up or getting close to him?”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“I realize you haven’t been owned by me for a while. Believe me, baby. I know it’s been a while—too fucking long, but this shit right here,” I bit her lip and looked deep into her eyes, “will get you into a lot of fucking trouble. Quit acting up.”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear You
“Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.”
― S.A.R.K., quote from Succulent Wild Woman
“She, who had never liked weddings, had allowed herself this fantasy. Her wedding day to Rory. A pretty church in Sussex, festooned with spring flowers. Rows of relatives, and her, Elle, floating down the aisle in cream silk to 'The arrival of queen Sheba', with eyes only for him... Rory, slightly rumpled, slightly scared, her love, her only one.
But that wasn't how it had turned out. She knew she was OK, watching him, in fact she was happy for him, happy for Libby. But she couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy for the girl she'd been, who'd loved him so much. She was still dreaming somewhere, hoping this day would come.”
― Harriet Evans, quote from Happily Ever After
“You can be good in the Broad Walk all the time, but not at the Round Pond, and the reason is that you forget, and, when you remember, you are so wet that you may as well be wetter.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from The Little White Bird
“Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist?
Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpey Kid: Roderick Rules
“The watching feeling is getting worse.
I am not an experiment.
I am not a stupid joke, or a trippy game, or an experiment. I will not go insane. Something bad is gonnae happen, though. I can feel it. It’s in the way that crisp bag has faded from the rain. I am not an experiment. If I keep saying it, I’ll start believing it. I have to try. I am not an experiment. It doesnae sound convincing. It sounds stupid.
Try it in German. Ich bin nicht eine experiment. My German’s shite. Inhale slowly to the count of four, look hard at the tip of my nose and try again. This time I go for an official BBC broadcaster circa-1940 accent.
Today, one finds one is not, in actual fact, a social experiment. One is a real person. This is real actual skin as seen containing the bodily organs of a real actual human being with a heart and soul and dreams.
It’s true that I came from real people once too, and they were a jolly old sort, with no naked psycho-ess in any way.
I, the young Miss Anais, understand wholly that I am just a human being that no one is interested in. No experiment. No outside fate. I am not that important, and that is just fine by me. I propose a stiff upper lip and onward Christian soldiers, quick-bloody-march! This is Anais Hendricks, telling the nation: to be me is really quite spiff-fucking-spoff, lashings of love, your devoted BBC broadcaster since 1938.”
― Jenni Fagan, quote from The Panopticon
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