“I want to hurt you.
I want to own you.
I want to devour you.
I want to make you mine.
I’m already yours.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“monsters find each other in the dark”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“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 Tears of Tess
“I’m offering you my pain. My blood. My pleasure. I’m offering you the right to whip and fuck. To debase and harm. I’m offering to fight your needs with my own. I’m willing to join you in the darkness and find pleasure in excruciating pain. I’m willing to be your monster, Q.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I hadn’t gone Stockholmy- I hated him, knew what he did was wrong, but my body, shit, my body didn’t care.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I promise to protect you, ravage you, hunt those who hurt you, and give you the life you deserve. My fortune is yours. My secrets are yours. And I will give you the corpses of the men who hurt you.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“You may not be mine but i'm fast becoming yours”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“Only think of me and what I’m doing. There is intimacy in pain esclave. Let me make your pain my pleasure.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I may be a monster but I was her monster.!”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I'm not afraid of hurting you. I'm afraid of how far I'm willing to go.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“A human is adaptable. A human heart is not.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“Q was no longer the devil.
He was my master and I belonged to him.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“You are no one's but mine. Do you understand?”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“Two things I wanted most in the world: for Q to die a miserable death, and for him to fuck me.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“My role as your master is to debase you to the point of having no feelings, no emotions, no hopes or dreams”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“You are mine. I can do what I want with you. I can dress you. Fuck you. Send you away. Loan you to others. You belong to me. And you've finally realized it isn't romantic, it isn't sexy, or fun. It's something no one should want or desire. You're a captive.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“Monsters find each other in the dark.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“No one would ever find Tess Snow again. She no longer existed. I am Ami Esclave.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“That night, before you sent me away, was the best night of my life. The marks you laced me with lasted a full week. Every time I looked in a mirror, or touched a bruise in the shower, I grew slick for you. You visited my dreams. I woke to aching wetness and an empty heart.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“He was smooth water—effortless in refinement but just like still water, dangerous if you couldn’t swim.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I wanted to lay corpses at her feet and prove I may be a monster but I was her monster.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I’m not afraid of hurting you. I’m afraid of how far I’m willing to go.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“If I was to be his for eternity, fine. He might own my body. He would never own my soul.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I’m yours. Isn’t that what you wanted?”
He shook his head, temper flaring. “You’ve given up. You aren’t mine unless I make
you mine!”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“Why did you buy me?"
He leaned back, steepling his fingers. "I didn't. You were a gift. An unwanted gift." His lips twitched. "A bribe, if you will.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“You’re different, I’ll give you that. They didn’t break you, but don’t
think you can fight me. You won’t win.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“I wanted a new label. One that said: girlfriend who will do anything to be tied, spanked, and fucked all over rather than adored.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“You fucking touch a girl of mine and
think you could survive?”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Tears of Tess
“It was the winter after Mother died, and Mrs. Corbett and some of the Brother's wives came to call. They kept bleating on about how sorry they were and my poor dear mother. It was infuriating. They didn't know Mother at all; she never liked any of them. They were just nosy, noisy sheep.”
― Jessica Spotswood, quote from Born Wicked
“What’s Chamberlain saying?” the president asked. “I’m afraid he’s dithering, Mr. President,” Hull replied. “Downing Street is in a panic. Churchill is pushing the PM to declare war, but Chamberlain won’t do it.” “Good heaven—the man has no spine,” Roosevelt snapped. “Is he just going to let the Nazis take over all of Europe? Is that his plan? What about the French? Will they declare war?” “Not without the British,” Welles said. “Paris doesn’t want to be out there all by themselves.”
― Joel C. Rosenberg, quote from The Auschwitz Escape
“Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.”
― Waris Dirie, quote from Desert Flower
“I wanted to stop talking about the whole thing. I wanted to talk about the hide and the old days and hacking at the ice and whose turn it was to toss the marble and all that, that was what I wanted to talk about. They were the best days, you could see through them days, as clear as polished glass. But Joe didn't want to.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“Man African societies divide humans into 3 categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalized ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many...can be recalled by name. But they are not living-dead. There is a difference.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, quote from The Brief History of the Dead
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