“You’re my obsession, I’m your possession You own the deepest part of me You crawled into the darkness, set my monster free So scream, bleed, call out to me But never say stop, never flee”
“there’s always light in the darkness.”
“I had no fucking life before you. You are my life. Without you, I might as well take a shotgun to my head and join you in the dirt because, Tess, if you leave me—if you’re so fucking weak not to fight, then that is what will happen to me. You’ll crucify me.”
“She’s flying free,” Q whispered, freezing me. He raised his head to look at a sparrow that landed on the mesh by his hand. “She’s leaving soon and I don’t think I’ll survive it.”
“I tried, Tess. I really did. I did everything you asked of me. I did everything a man in love would do for his woman. But you don’t want me and my beast no longer wants to hurt you. Whatever we had…it’s lost.”
“I can’t stop you leaving, but I won’t stay to see you go.”
“Fly away, esclave, if that is what you want. I won’t stop you.”
“You’re my obsession, I’m your possession You own the deepest part of me You crawled into the darkness, set my monster free”
“Naked and restrained, this darkness cannot be contained, you, my esclave, have been claimed..”
“You stole my loneliness. I may have given you wings, but you've become my gravity. I’ll never be free of your force.”
“I’d kill for you, Tess. I have killed for you. Don’t undermine me by fearing others. Fear me. Let me rule you!”
“So go ahead, esclave. Take my life as I’m not fit for anything anymore.”
“I wanted to own her past, her present, her future. I wanted to be her first and last and fucking forever. I wanted to wipe everything from her life where I wasn't the center point of her evolution.”
“My esclave - so strong and fierce and sexually feral - was gone. Her cage wasn't me anymore. It was them.”
“The world didn’t matter. This was us. This was our fuckedupness learning how to live without guilt and shame.”
“The moment Tess walked into my life she owned me. I would never be free again. I never wanted to be free again. If Tess thought she'd leave me by killing herself, she'd hate me for eternity when I kept her alive.”
“You don’t mean that. You’ll come back from it. Let me help you.”
“I wanted to highlight her bruises, mark her skin, so everyone knew she belonged to me. I wanted to brand her, to scar her, to wear her blood as a blatant warning to any man who ever looked in her direction.”
“It was barbaric. It was horrific. It was delicious.”
“As enamored as I was with Q, and as much as he fulfilled me, gave me everything my sick, twisted little soul could want, he drove me insane.”
“I needed her more than food or sunlight. Only when she came into my life did I start to live- intoxicated by her taste, screams, and joy.”
“I thought I would be her nightmare - her terror and darkness. I wanted to be. I needed her more than food or sunlight. Only when she came into my life did I start to live - intoxicated by her taste, screams and joy.”
“I hoped she didn't know just how much she affected me, because I was shit terrified of what the future meant for us.”
“ache to see your flesh bleed, scream for me, give me what I need, let the rivers run, the monster inside has won…”
“I died a little inside. The beast hated seeing her so meek and broken while the man learned a new compassion for caring. But day by day, hour by hour, the passion and need I felt for her turned from lover to brother. From consumed to confused.”
“Tighten your grip, make me bleed, it's a hunger I need to feed. Strip me bare, pull my hair, I don't care just take me there.”
“Tie me, tease me, let your pleasure please me. Hurt me, love me, but please don’t ever leave me…”
“Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.”
“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”
“The Otherworld does not supply the meaning of life. Rather, the Otherworld describes being alive. Life, in all its glory - warts and all, so to speak. The Otherworld provides meaning by example, by exhibition, by illustration if you will. ... Through the Otherworld we learn what it is be be alive, to be human: good and evil, heartbreak and ecstasy, victory and defeat, everything. ... where does one first learn loyalty? Or honor? Or any higher value, for that matter? ... Where does one learn to value the beauty of a forest and to revere it?'
In nature?'
Not at all. This can easily be proven by the fact that so many among us do not revere the forests at all - do not even see them, in fact. You know the people I am talking about. You have seen them and their works in the world. They are the ones who rape the land, who cut down forests and despoil oceans, who oppress the poor and tyrannize the helpless, who live their lives as if nothing lay beyond the horizon of their own limited earth-bound visions. But I digress. The question before us is this: where does one first learn to see a forest as a thing of beauty, to honor it, to hold it dear for its own sake, to recognize its true value as a forest, and not just see it as a source of timber to be exploited, or a barrier to be hacked down in order to make room for a motorway? ... the mere presence of the Otherworld kindles in us the spark of higher consciousness, or imagination. It is the stories and tale and visions of the Otherworld - that magical, enchanted land just beyond the walls of the manifest world - which awaken and expand in human beings the very notion of beauty, of reverence, of love and nobility, and all the higher virtues.”
“You and your organization have the power to change everything. To create remarkable products and services. To over deliver. To be the best in the world. How dare you squander that resource by spreading it too thin. How dare you settle for mediocre just because you’re busy coping with too many things on your agenda, racing against the clock to get it all done.”
“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”
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