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“People pleasing only hurts the one doing the pleasing.”
― Jessica Cage, I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend

“How is it that someone who is so impressive, someone with so much life under your belt, deals with such ridiculous men?”
― Jessica Cage, I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend

“I know there are men out there who still want love and appreciate a good woman. I know there are men who aren’t threatened by their partner’s success. It’s just harder to find them. Just gotta dig through the muck of men fighting to hold on to a relationship type that no longer has a place in our world.”
― Jessica Cage, I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend

“My mother knew all of my highs and lows. She kept my secrets and I could talk to her about anything. While she was my lifelong best friend, she never let me forget that she wore the title of my mother first.”
― Kimberly Brown, The Expiration Date

“You want to jump his holly jolly boner, then do it. You want to tongue him down under the mistletoe, do that too. You want him to be your lay in a manger? My vote is yes. Yes, to all of it!”
― K.C. Mills, Christmas in Spite of You

“Stop thinking of the worst case scenario, especially if you ain’t got no evidence supporting any of that shit.”
― ML Bash, Kevo & Juvi: A Miller's Pointe Christmas

“Just because we share blood with a person don’t mean they not gonna disappoint us.”
― Kennedy B., Duhani & Versai: A Miller's Pointe Christmas

“Our gut warns us every time our emotions are in danger and what do we do? Turn the other cheek. You ignored that uncomfortable lump in your throat because he was still coming home to you. You chose to look past the fact that his typical routine changed. You watched him change right before your eyes. You knew. You sensed it, but you chose to trust him more than yourself. He was comfortable to your head, your heart, your pu—fuck him. You see friend, a woman’s intuition never lies. If we listened to that little voice in our heads instead of our heart, then maybe we wouldn’t kiss so many frogs.”
― Zee Reneé, When He's Not There

“Good sex had a way of clouding judgment, just like love.”
― Kimberly Brown, Rhythm's Blues

“But qualified women aren’t likable; likable women aren’t qualified. The only way to get the job is to be ten times better than the best man and likable, which means willing to absorb any amount of misogyny in any form from anyone with a smile on your face, forever. You must be attractive but not too attractive; men don’t want to look at an unattractive woman all day long, but they won’t feel comfortable working with a woman much more attractive than their own wives.”
― Sarah Manguso, Liars

“She loved apologies that came with thoughtful gifts, outstanding head, superb dick, and changed behavior.”
― BriAnn Danae, Heat of the Moment

“They laughed loudly, catching a few glances from patrons walking by. Something about Black people laughing loudly, unashamed of their happiness, made people tune in. Everyone wanted to know what they had to smile and be happy about.”
― BriAnn Danae, Here With You Forever

“we have to understand that it’s perfectly fine to be a go-getter with or without a man. That ambition is either in you or it isn’t. How you prioritize reaching your goals and balancing life outside of them is up to you.”
― BriAnn Danae, Fate of Our Future

“Why would you ever take advice from someone you don’t want to end up like?”
― BriAnn Danae, Fate of Our Future

“remember who you are and what obstacles you’ve already faced and conquered. You gon’ let this one hold you back?”
― BriAnn Danae, Keep You To Myself

“The truth is tricky. You open the door to it, thinking it will act as a salve, that it will set you free. And instead it leaps at you, teeth bared, and rips out your jugular.”
― Sarah Alderson, In Her Eyes

“Once you decide you are no longer a lamb but a wolf, everything changes.”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And don’t ever let anyone tell you we’re the weaker sex.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“I prayed that this man never turned out to be too good to be true.”
― Kimberly Brown, The Last Sad Love Song

“So what if you were a follower? Or a coward? So the fuck what? Weren’t we all something else other than who and what we are today? Everything in our lives shapes us into who’s standing here now. Not just the good shit but the bad, too. The shit we’re proud of and the things we don’t even like to think of, much less talk about.”
― Naima Simone, Church Girl

“When you cheat, it isn’t just betraying your partner. It’s saying fuck you to your relationship, your family. It’s stealing time from not just the person you married but from your kids, your extended relatives. It’s jeopardizing your world, not just your marriage. It’s saying getting a nut is more important than other people’s hearts, other people’s emotional pain, their security.”
― Naima Simone, Church Girl

“I don’t hate all men. I just find them highly illogical. I don’t have any idea why they are allowed to run the world.”
― Vanessa Riley, A Gamble at Sunset

“Vengeance, though, replaced the blood in my veins, and no one would be spared. The world wasn’t safe until I emptied the arteries of all those involved.”
― K.C. Mills, You Could Do Damage

“I was loud. I had thoughts and opinions of my own. I would not be silenced, especially not by a man.”
― Kimberly Brown, Liberated: An Erotic Short

“There are monsters in this world and laws don’t apply to them. We have to do what we did thousands of years ago when we lived in caves. If a wolf came to the mouth of the cave, the first ones attacking it were the women, defending their children.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Kill for Me, Kill for You

“There was still half of the cone left”
― Tamyra Griffin, Infected