“And then sometimes, rarely, in the middle of the night, he’d be sweet. Pulling me into his lap, kissing me, caressing me. Letting me fly but anchoring me with his eyes. Speaking words he’d never dare say in the light of day.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“That was the funny thing about smiles--if you flashed the right one, no one knew there was more going on inside.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“His weakness was me. He wanted me and he hated that maybe as much as I hated him.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“I don’t know, Reeve. Because you do a lot of talking, and all I hear are mixed messages.”
“I’m unmixing them now. Listen. This is the one I want you to hear.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“Why can’t we worry about each other?”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“The only thing shittier than the way men treated a pretty woman was the way women did.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“It was a kiss that took—took my desire, took my passion, took my will.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“Even in my thoughts, he watched me.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“A flood of inadequacy poured over me, a feeling of I-don’t-belong, but if not here, then where? The room began to close in around me, blanketing me with acute heaviness.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“I can’t figure you out, Emily.” His words were tight yet even. “I don’t know if I like you or if I just want to fuck you.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“I understood exactly what it was to want to change. To try to change. To find it impossible.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“I’m an awful host,” he said eventually. “I should tell you to make yourself at home, but all I care about is making myself at home inside you.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“He had so much control over me, so much power to have me this close to destruction so quickly. I was exposed. Raw and vulnerable. Caught off guard by how easily he annihilated me each and every time. It scared me.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“Now the door was open. Now one of us just had to walk through it.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“I’m trying. I’m going to keep trying with you.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“He’s a rich, powerful man. Rich, powerful men get away with things all the time. It’s the law of capitalism. It’s especially an issue when those rich, powerful men have ties to men who are richer and more powerful.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“No,” I told him. “You tell me what I want. That’s what I want.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“I was here because this was who I was—a strong, independent woman with distinct wants and needs that were only met when I submitted to a man.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“A glance at his crotch gave me the slightest smidgeon of satisfaction. He was unmistakably hard. He might be punishing me, but he was punishing himself too.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“He was always rough. Always raw. He fucked me however he wanted.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“all I hear are mixed messages.” “I’m unmixing them now. Listen. This is the one I want you to hear.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“There were at least a couple thousand people in front of me—all of them trying to show that they weren’t ugly too. A flood of inadequacy poured over me, a feeling of I-don’t-belong, but if not here, then where?”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“I want you to fuck me!” The words tumbled out. “Hard.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“Besides, I don’t think that’s something you’d want to hear from your lover.” “Lover?”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“On the bed?” “No. Against the window. From behind. I want you to strip me and press me hard to the glass. So it will feel like anyone can see. And anyone who does will know that I’m special because I’m the one you’re fucking.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“They were here for the attention and material gain. They were shells waiting to be filled with a man’s desires, blank screens projecting someone else’s wants.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“And what exactly was it he was saying? That he wanted to take me into his bed? That he wanted to scare me and possibly hurt me and I was supposed to be okay with that?”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“Having them finally touched, finally fondled and caressed, was more erotic than I’d imagined. More pleasurable than I wanted it to be. I decided I would die if he ever stopped. God, how I needed him to stop.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“What do you want? How do you want it? I never felt like I had a good answer. For the first time, I realized why. Because what I wanted was to not be asked the question.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
“They loved believing they’d affected a woman so much that she was reduced to communicating through gasps and groans.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from First Touch
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“الكائن الانسانى ليس إلا شعـورًا بالوحـدة.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Festival of Insignificance
“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
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“Every human being occupies a space at the dead center of his or her own universe.”
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“The diplomatic kids had a hectic sort of life, being constantly thrown from one end of the world to the other and always playing tennis, no matter who was being machine-gunned in the streets, you were always extraterritorial, history was not permitted to touch you, it was only buzzing around your tennis court in a bloody sort of way. You were so well protected that you went to pieces. Diplomatic immunity could do very strange things to you, it was like weightlessness. You had to remind yourself constantly that you actually existed, and you were not supposed to identify yourself too much with the suffering of whatever country you were posted to. But then, who needs reality anyway?”
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