“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
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“John Brooks.’ Immediately, I thought of the odds. First of just surviving in such a place, next of surviving and then becoming a cop. ‘Vertical ghettos, each one of them. Me and John used to say it was the only time when you had to take the elevator up when you were going to hell.’ I just nodded. This was out of my realm completely. ‘And that’s only if the elevators were working,’ he added. I realized that I never considered that Brooks might be a black man. There was no photo in the computer printouts and no reason to mention race in the stories. I had just assumed he was white and it was an assumption I would have to analyze later. At the moment, I was trying to figure out what Washington was trying to tell me by taking me here. Washington pulled into a lot next to one of the buildings. There were a couple of dumpsters coated with decades of graffiti slogans. There was a rusted basketball backboard but the rim was long gone. He put the car in park but left it running. I didn’t know if that was to keep the heat flowing or to allow us a quick getaway if needed. I saw a small group of teenagers in long coats, their faces as dark as the sky, scurry from the building closest to us, then cross a frozen courtyard and hustle into one of the other buildings. ‘At this point you’re wondering what the hell you’re doing here,’ Washington said then. ‘That’s okay, I understand. A white boy like you.’ Again I said nothing. I was letting him run out his line. ‘See that one, third on the right. That was our building. I was on fourteen with my grand-auntie and John lived with his mother on twelve, one below us. They didn’t have no thirteen, already enough bad luck ’round here. Neither of us had fathers. At least ones that showed up.’ I thought he wanted me to say something but I didn’t know what. I had no earthly idea what kind of struggle the two friends must have had to make it out of the tombstone of a building he had pointed at. I remained mute. ‘We were friends for life. Hell, he ended up marrying my first girlfriend, Edna. Then on the department, after we both made homicide and trained with senior detectives for a few years, we asked to be partnered. And damn, it got approved. Story about us in the”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Poet
“intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only”
― Jacqueline Winspear, quote from Maisie Dobbs
“There’s too much history to tell, really, about all of us and how we’d do things like hike and how she loved that I ran so much.”
― Ron McLarty, quote from The Memory of Running
“Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Wish List
“i survive on intimacy & tomorrow/”
― Ntozake Shange, quote from for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
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