Priest (Priest, #1)

by Sierra Simone

“You may not ever be able to get out of bed in the morning with that security. That moment of okay may never come. All you can do is try to find a new balance, a new starting point. Find whatever love is left in your life and hold on to it tightly. And one day, things will have gotten less gray, less dull. One day, you might find that you have a life again. A life that makes you happy.”

That's really profound wtf

“And what about an unbelievably hot priest? Is that a sound reason for exploring the Church?”

Fleabag moment right here

“Catholicism is a macabre religion.”

It actually is omg

Then I stretched out facedown on the cold tile floor in an attempt to lower my core temperature.

Real. Me too

“Is it because you think I’m some sort of fallen woman?”

AUNT INGRID IS THAT YOU?! "yOu ArE nOt A fAlLeN wOmAn!"

“I guess I don’t feel so loved.”

Same

That stung like hell, actually, because I had just been trying to summon up all of my postmodern, feminist ally thoughts, trying to squash down the part of my brain that fantasized about making her crawl naked across my floor with a glass of single-malt balanced on her back.

Who says you can't be an ally AND want this, Father?

“I shouldn’t put you over my lap and spank your ass for being a brazen little slut and coming here without a bra,” I growled in her ear. “I shouldn’t twist ropes around your wrists and ankles until your cunt is exposed and then screw you until you can’t walk anymore. I shouldn’t flip you over and fuck your ass until your eyes water. I shouldn’t drive you down to the strip club and fuck you in the back room, so that you’ll forget all about Sterling and the only name you’ll remember to say is mine.” I lightly bit her nipple again. “Or God’s.”

LORD HAVE MERCY

there was no bigger turn-on than having a naked woman climbing all over you, purring at your feet and squealing in your lap, all while you were fully dressed.

ME NEXT ME NEXT ME NEXT

(And yes, I recognize that’s also fucked up in terms of feminism and all that. I’m sorry.)

All of the feminism just evaporated from my body omg

One and a half inches of damnation, and all I could think about was sinking deeper into hell.

Do it omg SLIDE IN

“Stay the fuck still, or I’m going to come before I want to, and if that happens, then I will take you over my knee and spank your ass until you learn how to listen,” I said sternly.

YES DADDY

“What?” she asked, picking up her quilted handbag. “An old lady can’t swear? Catch up with the times, Father.”

I LOVE YOU MILLIE

“Maybe it wasn’t the celibacy gene,” I said more to myself than to her. “Maybe it’s just that I was always waiting for you.”

SOBBING

“God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are—stumbling, sinning, confused. All He asks of us is love—love for Him, love for others, and love for ourselves. He asks us to lay down our lives—not to live like ascetics, devoid of any pleasure or joy, but to give Him our lives so that He may increase our joy and increase our love.”

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Dr. Pepper, the Fountain of Youth.

Real. I love Dr. Pepper

“Si vis amari, ama,” you tell me. If you wish to be loved, love. Words we exchanged what feels like a million years ago.

AWWWWWW

It was your love that brought us back together, your unflagging love that lasted through my deception and my seclusion. I’d thought I was making the right sacrifices for you to be with God, but I was wrong the whole time. Now we are both with God and we are together, giving up our individual lives today to fuse into one eternal soul.

Why is a book about a sexy priest making me tear up?!?!