“I can’t tell him no. Some people have a relationship that’s sunshine and roses. Ours is darkness and vengeance.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Another pair of cop cars heads over the hill. “You just drive nice, okay?”
“Nicely,” she snaps.
“What?”
“Drive nicely, that’s how you say it. Not drive nice.”
Oh God. Nicely. Correcting my grammar even at gunpoint. I’m so fucking hot for her, I think I might burst into flames.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“She’s mine to do what I want with, but that also means she’s mine to care for, to protect.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“This isn’t a fucking fairy tale. I’m not going to turn into a good guy because her cunt is made of velvet and rainbows.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“I know how it feels when your stomach hurts like it’s trying to eat itself. I know what it’s like to fight with a grown-up and lose.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Her eyes flash at me. “Fuck you,” she says. “Are you offering?”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Act “naturally.” It’s called an adverb, asshole, I think, but I don’t say it. He seems to get perverse pleasure when I correct his grammar.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“The scary part is, I don’t know what I’ll do if she says no. Let her go? I can’t—she’s mine. But there’s this new thing going on in my head where I’m not sure I can fuck her mouth if she doesn’t want it. I’m not sure I can use the soft palate of her mouth to jerk off. Not sure I can come all over her face unless she tells me it’s okay. A little fucked up, but there it is.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“She kisses the tip of my cock. Kisses it. Like she’s fucking courting it or something.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Because guidelines are made to broken. Like rules. Like people.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Everybody would say we’re wrong in everything we’re doing. But we don’t feel wrong to me.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“We’re together. I’m his.” I don’t realize the truth of it until I actually say it aloud. I’m his. And that makes him mine too, and it’s messed up and beautiful. “I’m his and he’s mine.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“It’s an answer to the question I should never have asked. You want this, baby? And God, she does. She couldn’t tell me in regular words. Not like yes or please or fuck me. Not my Abby. She has to speak in library words as she gives me the hottest, dirtiest, smartest blowjob on the planet.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Is this you giving me advice on how to survive a guy like you? Because that’s a little fucked up, even for you.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“He won’t ever let me go—not ever.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“It’s part of a vow we made up: One blade to protect my brothers, one blade for vengeance.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“But the truth is, whenever I’m around him, I’m ready for him to use me and mount me and fuck me. I’m done fighting it. I want to lose to him. I want him to make me lose.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“He’s going to kill me. He’s going to rape me. Though just now, with my tongue curling against his, it doesn’t feel like rape. Is this what death will be like? Will he make me want that too?”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Sometimes, Abigail, you have to punch a fucking hole in your soul to survive.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“All I can do is go to him and put my hands on him. To speak to him in some twisted language of love that only we two speak, where we hurt each other just to soothe the wounds that follow.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“It’s like with every passing mile, I am farther and farther away from safety—and farther from myself. From being human. I’m turning into this other type of being, one who jerks off criminals in crappy motel rooms. One who wants to be kissed in a getaway car.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“All the girls I ever had, fucking one-night stands in some shit bathroom and wherever. It’s nothing compared to—” I gesture in her direction. “That’s black-and-white, and this shit is color. When you find somebody and you know.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Most people never have to find out what kind of shit they’re really capable of. Most people don’t have to turn themselves into something they hate just to make sure they can get that next breath.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Her gaze finds mine, and something flares in me. Because I would catch her. And the hottest thing is that I think she knows it. Maybe nobody has ever caught her, but I would. I would catch her. I would keep her. Make her mine.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“Two long years without a woman’s touch. I’d be mad with lust for any woman.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“But that’s just sex, and I figured out a long time ago not to trust my own body. Stimulation. Physical reaction. It can be anyone rubbing me, fucking me, and as long as they do it the right way, I’ll orgasm. That doesn’t mean I won’t kill them.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“She’s back, and I’m the devil, breathing in her fire, consuming little bits of her soul.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“She hated me once, but it’s not hate I see in her eyes now. Not even fear. It’s love. I don’t deserve her love, but I have it anyway. I don’t deserve her at all, but she’s mine. Beautiful, smart. And so fucking strong.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“I do what I promised I never would: I let her go.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
“When I think about dying, I think about not seeing Grayson anymore. Like I’ve just crossed a border into a country that’s somehow magical and dark and amazing, and I don’t want to miss it now. I don’t want to lose my connection to Grayson.”
― Annika Martin, quote from Prisoner
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“We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”
― Ali Smith, quote from Hotel World
“Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about, believe in — or don't, as the case may be. It makes no difference. NOT UNTIL YOU SURRENDER does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy that you emanate”
― Eckhart Tolle, quote from Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.”
― John Eldredge, quote from Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“He's an idiot," Harry said again. "One who doesn't deserve to lick your feet. You'll thank me someday."
"I have no intention of allowing him to lick me anywhere," she retorted, then turned utterly red when she realized what she's said.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from What Happens in London
“I have met only a very few people - and most of these were not Americans - who had any real desire to be free. Freedom is hard to bear. It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels. Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and, internationally, for many millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster. Whoever doubts this last statement has only to open his ears, his heart, his mind, to the testimony of - for example - any Cuban peasant or any Spanish poet, and ask himself what he would feel about us if he were the victim of our performance in pre-Castro Cuba or in Spain. We defend our curious role in Spain by referring to the Russian menace and the necessity of protecting the free world. It has not occurred to us that we have simply been mesmerized by Russia, and that the only real advantage Russia has in what we think of as a struggle between the East and the West is the moral history of the Western world. Russia's secret weapon is the bewilderment and despair and hunger of millions of people of whose existence we are scarecely aware. The Russian Communists are not in the least concerned about these people. But our ignorance and indecision have had the effect, if not of delivering them into Russian hands, of plunging them very deeply in the Russian shadow, for which effect - and it is hard to blame them - the most articulate among them, and the most oppressed as well, distrust us all the more... We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is. Anyway, the point here is that we are living in an age of revolution, whether we will or no, and that America is the only Western nation with both the power, and, as I hope to suggest, the experience that may help to make these revolutions real and minimize the human damage.”
― James Baldwin, quote from The Fire Next Time
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