“All men are rabbits,” she retorts, her eyes flying open. “They sniff around, fuck whatever’s available, and then they run off. Fucking rabbits. And we’re Elmer Fudd, inadvertently blowing up our own lives while obsessively trying to hunt one down.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“You want me to touch you right here, in full daylight”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I need you,” he says, his voice so quiet I have to lean forward to hear. “That’s my secret. I need you more than you have ever needed me.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“No, I’m telling you that you’re the only thing on this earth that has made me feel connected to what’s here. When I’m with you, I know what’s real. I can feel it, touch it. When I’m with you, I’m something more than . . . other. When I’m not with you, my head’s in the stars.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“Nothing will happen that you don’t want to happen. Remember, all you have to do is say no.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“We broke up because I was afraid.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I had no desire to say no.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“You would never come here just because you want me to touch you again, although you do. You wouldn’t come just because you feel alive when you’re with me. You wouldn’t come because I’m the only one you can be your true self with. But for work? Yes, for work you’ll always come.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“But the thing is,” and with this it’s he who takes a step forward, “the woman who you really are . . . the one who you keep so tightly under wraps, the woman who is only allowed out when she is touched a certain way, made to feel certain things . . . that woman is so damn compelling . . . I can’t seem to turn away.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I want to know what she’s like over a candlelight dinner. I want to see her on the beach. I want to know what it would feel like to walk beside her talking about the thoughts you never let her share.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I don’t want to confine you, I don’t want to control you. I want to set you free.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“As I was saying before,” he says, his eyes glued to me as I begin to writhe on the sheets beneath me, “I will allow it.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“You’re still my ocean,” he whispers.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I understand—” I gasp. “. . . and you will not stand in my way.” “I will not stand in your way,” I parrot. It’s all I can manage.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“and I remember . . . the kisses, the taste of him, the feeling of him inside me.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I feel the weight of his chest on top of me as he finally collapses; I close my eyes and try to bring myself back to earth. I might have been safer at Dave”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I don’t want to respond to him but my body won’t cooperate.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“If we’re starting over,” he says, quietly, “is it too early to say I love you?”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“He’s no longer a stranger. He’s my moon.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“But when Robert touches me in just the right way, I forget. I forget what it is I want, or rather I forget that I want anything other than him.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“Your problem is that you have never fully understood the power of being a desired woman.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“As we stay there, pressed against each other, the room smelling of coffee and sex, I hear him mutter . . . perhaps to himself, perhaps to me, “Last time, my ass.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“Two weeks ago I didn’t know what it felt like . . . to be pressed against a wall, to be propped up on a desk, to be made love to on the floor of the Venetian.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“What’s a woman supposed to do when her angel starts using her devil’s tools?”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“Even with him in me I ache for him, and it’s that aching that brings me rapidly to the brink.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“The rules are mine to set. What I don’t believe in is playing by other people’s rules.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“You were made for me,” he breathes.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
Kyra Davis
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“When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from El asesinato de Roger Ackroyd
“It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?”
― Peter Ackroyd, quote from The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
“A naively formulated goal transmutes, with time, into the sinister form of the life-lie. One forty-something client told me his vision, formulated by his younger self: “I see myself retired, sitting on a tropical beach, drinking margaritas in the sunshine.” That’s not a plan. That’s a travel poster. After eight margaritas, you’re fit only to await the hangover. After three weeks of margarita-filled days, if you have any sense, you’re bored stiff and self-disgusted. In a year, or less, you’re pathetic. It’s just not a sustainable approach to later life. This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, quote from 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.'
'Don't you have a photograph?'
'Photographs!' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face.”
― Siri Hustvedt, quote from The Blindfold
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