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“Ask a man what his greatest fear is about serving jail time, and he will almost inevitably say he fears being raped. What can we deduce from the fact that jail is to men what life is to so many women?”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Fucking is my therapy. Making others feel pain makes me feel better. I”
― Shantel Tessier, Madness

“Social media makes you think you have all this freedom, but you don’t. Not really. You’re stuck behind a device watching others live out their dreams. You post selfies of fake smiles and expensive clothes, hoping that someone will envy you. Reassure you just how good you have it. All the while hating your life. “Smile, dear, you never know who is watching you,” my mother always tells me. Desperation is never pretty.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“There’s my girl.”
― Shantel Tessier, Madness

“I vow …” Sin’s voice fills the room. “To fuck this cunt.” My already soaked thong is shoved to the side and a finger enters me, causing my hips to buck involuntarily. “You vow to be mine, don’t you, little demon?” I nod the best I can, which isn’t much, and moan a yes when a second enters. “We vow to never be apart in this world or the next.” He enters a third one, and my teeth sink into the rubber while I inhale sharply through my nose. “Because I will always find you, pet. No matter how far you try to run, how hard you fight me, or how long you live for me. You will never escape me.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“That does sound pretty nice.” I manage a half-assed, heartbroken grin. “What genre do you like?” He winks at me. “Dark romance where the heroine gets fucked by the psychopaths.” I burst out laughing and he cracks a wide smile too. “Me too. I’ll give you recs if you give me yours.” “Deal.”
― K.M. Moronova, The Fabric of Our Souls

“I didn’t deserve anything I had, but I was doing everything to make sure I’d deserve whatever came. We’d have the family we would make, our friends, and our home, and every fucking night, I’d have her right here, surrounding me and getting lost with me where the rest of the world didn’t exist, and it was just us. Always just us.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“You're crawling inside yourself. You don't just want out of the room. You want out of your skin.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven. The quote I read years ago went something like that, but I never understood it. When you’re in the thick all your life, living in ways you eventually figure out no one else is, you learn to sleep well in heat and eat fire. Until one day it’s all you need.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Fear made us feel alive.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“This is what happened when you fell in love. You lost your nerve, because you didn’t want to lose what had become more important.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“He was as guilty as sin.
No one knew the real tragedy, though. It wasn’t a matter of why he was different with me, but rather, now… I was different because of him.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“A decaying snowflake.” I raised my eyebrows. A decaying . . . “Why?” I asked. “Because of ‘Winter’ by Walter de la Mare,” he replied softly. “Something still beautiful, even after what I did to her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“In fact, he was kind of an angel at the end. An angel with really black bat wings. Psycho.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“That's what red feels like. Anger and fury and heat and need so strong, you're a fucking animal, Winter. It's primal.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Because I have a passion for self-destruction, and you knew it, and you always knew we would end badly.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I knew that however long this lasted, it would probably be the happiest and most miserable I’d ever been. He made me so angry, I wanted to punch him. But then there was nothing like kissing him.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“An angel with really black batwings.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Not everyone needed help to stop hurting themselves. Some of us just traded in one coping mechanism for another.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Being with him was like dancing. Dancing with death”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“This is black,” he said. “Fear, falling, release. Excitement, risk, danger.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“The world respected people who didn’t crave approval.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“He made himself the cure, which wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t also created the disease.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“To dive and fall.

To have a lifetime of searching for something.

Or to have five minutes of everything.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch