“Life hurts. As long as it doesn’t kill us, we weather it.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“I’m going to ruin you. I’ll be your first, and I’ll fuck you so thoroughly that I’ll be your last too. You won’t want any other man after I’ve gotten my hands on you.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Mr. Stalker
Mr. Kinky
Mr. Spellcaster
Mr. Charming
Mr. Personality
Mr. Stalker
Mr. Celebrity
Mr. Beautiful
Mr. Mercurial”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“I knew I had a problem. I was starting to like that kinky rich bastard.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“If you are having trouble understanding, let me spell it out for you … This is serious, Bianca. I’ve never been more fucking serious in my life.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Even mosochists need lovers. What would a girl like me do without someone like you? Perhaps everyone is good for someone.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“He lay down beside me, pulling me back to his chest and throwing his arm over me. “Mine,” he whispered in my ear.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“You are the most perfect fucking thing I've ever seen in my life”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“It was hard to remember that we weren't supposed to feel anything for each other when he looked at me like I was more important than the next breath.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“In private, though, you may call me Mr. Cavendish”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“You’re the most gorgeous creature on the planet. How do you not know that you’ve completely ruined me for other men?”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Somebody is smitten with my Buttercup.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“I want you to feel what I’m feeling, Bianca. I want you to feel this uncontrollable need. I can’t stand the thought that you’re indifferent to me.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“You have such dreams in your eyes.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“How could such a beautiful man be insecure?”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“That will get you fucked in a hurry, Love.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Is it possible I’m not as sexy as I think I am?”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Yes, you scare me,” I told him, after a very long silence, while I processed his answer. “But I’m irrevocably fucked up, so you excite me in equal measures. I find it liberating, to let someone control me…”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“It gave me an extraordinary feeling, being on the receiving end of such a stare. It made me feel like I was more important than air to him for a brief, profound moment.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“My past has shaped me, that's true of anyone.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Taking care of you," he said mildly. "I'm getting you ready for bed right now. And if you start throwing up all of that poison you drank tonight, I'll take you to the bathroom and hold your hair out of your face for you.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“It isn’t fair for a man that perfect to be loose among the public.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Wear that," he told me.
I didn't protest. It was comfortable enough.
I grabbed a bra and some panties out of my dresser.
He followed me there, digging through the drawer without asking.
"Nice," he said.
"I ordered you a few dozen more pairs. The last line of defensebetween me and your pussy is bound to take some casualties.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“I want you to be mine, Bianca. Will you be my submissive?”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Please.” His voice was quiet. “I can’t stand the thought of losing you. What can I do?”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“He began to work on me with his mouth, making me pant and beg in scant seconds. After coaxing a quick, intense orgasm out of me, he rose.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“Voy a arruinarte — susurró — Voy a ser tu primero, y te voy a joder tan a fondo que voy a ser el último, también. No querrás a ningún otro hombre después de que haya conseguido poner mis manos sobre ti. Hasta el último centímetro de ti.”
― R.K. Lilley, quote from In Flight
“He is well satisfied with his accommodation, which provides all modern amenities in a compact and convenient form, and leaves him the maximum amount of time free for his work. How much time people waste in walking from one room to another.... Space is time.”
― David Lodge, quote from Small World
“And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousness of self gives him an unusual dignity in the animal kingdom, he also pays a tragic price for it. The fact that the child has to identify -first- means that his very first identity is a social product. His habitation of his own body is built from the outside in; not from the inside out. He doesn't unfold into the world, the world unfolds into him. As the child responds to the vocal symbols learned from his object, he often gives the pathetic impression of being a true social puppet, jerked by alien symbols and sounds. What sensitive parent does not have his satisfaction tinged with sadness as the child repeats with such vital earnestness the little symbols that are taught him?”
― Ernest Becker, quote from The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
“Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?”
― Jacquelyn Frank, quote from Elijah
“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Laughter in the Dark
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