“I’ve never been so jealous of water before.” His fingers slid over my skin. “How it can touch you everywhere— all at once.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“I will have you do things you never thought possible, but I can also bring you a pleasure you never imagined.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“If you choose to wear this, you’ll be marked as mine. Mine to do with as I wish. You will obey me and never question what I tell you to do.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“There's a special place in hell for people who mistreat animals.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“You were the goddess I longed to worship. My unobtainable dream. The relationship I could never hope to have.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“We could have slept anywhere and I wouldn’t have cared. His arms were the heaven I never wanted to leave.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“In that moment, I understood that love and hate were opposite sides of the same coin. For as much as I’d loved Nathaniel ten minutes ago, I hated him now.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“I’m going to fuck you during the Super Bowl, Abigail.” He bit down on my earlobe, and I sucked in a breath. “As long as you’re quiet, no one will know.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“His lips were smooth and strong, and his tongue stroked mine with a passion and yearning that curled my toes. And we weren’t dom and sub; we weren’t master and servant; we weren’t even man and woman. We were lovers...”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“I never want to leave this shower,” he said, thrusting. “Never want to leave you. ’Cause I’m never going to fucking get enough.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“All of life is faith. Just because something has a label doesn't mean it's always going to match the inside. Trust me. Sometimes it takes more faith to believe the label.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“Don't be afraid of what's on the inside. I can make a masterpiece with the insides.”
― Tara Sue Me, quote from The Submissive
“Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.”
― Muriel Spark, quote from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--”
― Robin McKinley, quote from The Blue Sword
“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.
I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.
I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeks he his own down-going.
I love him who labors and invents, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeks he his own down-going.
I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.
I love him who reserves no share of spirit for himself, but wants to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walks he as spirit over the bridge.
I love him who makes his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.
I love him who desires not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always bestows, and desires not to keep for himself.
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb.
I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.
I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goes he willingly over the bridge.
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things that are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causes his down-going.
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the SUPERMAN.--”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and mystery.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from An Echo in the Bone
“They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the best-planned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a Departmental canteen.”
― John le Carré, quote from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
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