Quotes from Quintessentially Q

Pepper Winters ·  376 pages

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“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”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“there’s always light in the darkness.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q



“I can’t stop you leaving, but I won’t stay to see you go.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“Fly away, esclave, if that is what you want. I won’t stop you.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“You’re my obsession, I’m your possession You own the deepest part of me You crawled into the darkness, set my monster free”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“Naked and restrained, this darkness cannot be contained, you, my esclave, have been claimed..”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“You stole my loneliness. I may have given you wings, but you've become my gravity. I’ll never be free of your force.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q



“I’d kill for you, Tess. I have killed for you. Don’t undermine me by fearing others. Fear me. Let me rule you!”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“So go ahead, esclave. Take my life as I’m not fit for anything anymore.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“My esclave - so strong and fierce and sexually feral - was gone. Her cage wasn't me anymore. It was them.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“The world didn’t matter. This was us. This was our fuckedupness learning how to live without guilt and shame.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q



“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“You don’t mean that. You’ll come back from it. Let me help you.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“It was barbaric. It was horrific. It was delicious.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q



“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“I hoped she didn't know just how much she affected me, because I was shit terrified of what the future meant for us.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“ache to see your flesh bleed, scream for me, give me what I need, let the rivers run, the monster inside has won…”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q



“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.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


“Tie me, tease me, let your pleasure please me. Hurt me, love me, but please don’t ever leave me…”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q


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