Join us buddy-reading ICE QUEEN & MIRROR OF MY SOUL starting Dec. 20th!

[SueBee★bring me an alpha!★]

Favorite quotes....
BOOK 3:

“She didn’t belong to anyone, though her lovers, temporary though they were, belonged to her for all time.”

“Most of the Masters at The Zone would have given both of their testicles for the right to top the Ice Queen.”

“Everything goes in slow motion around you, Marguerite. You steal time when people look at you.”

“Each time I look at you, I marvel at the feat of organic engineering that’s allowed you to create such a fortification within a perfect composition of female flesh.”

“When you take a man’s life that’s between you, God and that man’s soul. It’s a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can’t talk about it because there are no words for it.”


BOOK 4:

“Tyler seriously considered fabricating an outbreak of salmonella in the hors d’oeuvres and an impending locust plague, either of which would require everyone to leave now.”

“I’d fire that woman if I knew how to operate a vacuum.”

“I didn’t expect to see you so soon.”
“I was told to go to hell. My connecting flight was delayed so I thought I’d drop in.”

“Christ, I’m so furious with you.”

“By my hand only. By my cock and mouth only, unless I command otherwise.”

“It was a humbling thought, to realize the weight of the world could not break him, but the loss of her could have.”

“You’ve taught me a great deal about stillness.”

[Baba]

Ice Queen











"A thousand tiny imperfections can make a perfect life."

I love Tyler's easy and self-assured banter and deadpan humor.

“I’ve been trying to talk Marguerite into performing a Japanese tea ceremony for me but she tells me she reserves it only for her special customers.”
“A properly done chajitakes four hours.”
His teeth flashed at her. “I have the stamina.”
Tina stifled a chuckle. Eyes glinting, Tyler inclined his head to her and moved to a wide-eyed Chloe, asking her if she needed any help as if he’d worked there all his life.
“I’d offer to catch you if you need to swoon,” Tina said under her breath. “Except my knees went weak watching him kiss your hand.”

“I know who you think is the prettiest girl here,” Natalie announced, pinning him with a knowing look.
Tyler grinned. “That would be the birthday girl, of course.”
Natalie shook her head, her curls swinging. “You’re just saying that because it’s my birthday. You think Miss M is the prettiest, because you’re in love with her.”
There was a clatter as Marguerite knocked one of her fortunately empty teacups across the table. She grabbed at it but it rolled over the edge, skittering away as if possessed. Before she blinked, Tyler caught it in his open palm.
He brought it back to the table, sitting it down next to her hand, meeting her flustered gaze. “I handle delicate objects very well,” he said, low, as the girls exclaimed over the fortunate catch.
She stared at him. He passed a knuckle over her cheek. “All right?”

“Think about those bronze sculptures…” His voice soothed her surge of panic. “How the artists focused on the lines of the body, keeping the lines simple to bring out the life in the art. It’s in their very stillness they burst with the power of sensuality. Like you, Marguerite. Absolutely still like this, by my command, you’re a Goddess.”

"What type of flavor do you think I prefer?"
She cocked her head. "The subtle, the delicately made. You're the type of person who wants the mystery inside the flower bud."
I can still appreciate the different nuances of the stronger flavors." He studied the orchid in the center of the table. "With the very delicate, you sculpt something down to such a whisper of form, there's nothing else it can be. It's in strength you find surprises, variation."<

She inhaled sharply as he traced the line of her neck with the warm wetness. "I'm not afraid to bleed for you, Marguerite." His voice was a rough whisper against her ear. "I'll tell The Zone you're thinking it over. Don't disappoint me. Or yourself."

"The strongest drive inside of a submissive, underneath all their emotional wounds, is for the Master to push aside any curtains or walls they may have erected to separate them from their true self, the naked, vulnerable soul. Because that soul wants only one thing. Do you want to know what that is?"
(…) "I don't want to know. That's not what the training's about."
"Wrong. That's what submissive training is all about. Getting past those shields so she feels truly bound to her Master, a part of him as he's a part of her. The ultimate connection, where thought isn't necessary. They're together in the most elemental and perfect way there is. She stared at him. "Let me go, Tyler. I can't do this." "You can. You will."

"Because." He leaned forward, his hand slipping up her back to unerringly trace the scar tissue of the design burned there, now concealed under the robe. "Someone drew you wings a long time ago and you've been trying to decide whether to fly away ever since." (…) "And because when I look at you, I think you're a gift from God."



Like I said in my review the stillness was a recurring theme and exceptionally well orchestrated. It was interchangeable with God, love, rituals, yoga, skydiving, tea ceremonies etc. Marguerite has built her life, her sanctuary around stillness. So, so marvelous.

"You may not realize it but you're seeking the silence in your soul, a plea where you go to find the best of yourself. Learning a simple and beautiful skill, like choosing a teapot, that's seeking that silence, creating rituals where that silence may be found and nurtured. As long as you have that place, you'll never lose yourself, who you are, what you want. But you have to remember to keep bringing flowers into your meadow, always one at a time, to appreciate each blossom, to honor its contribution to your character. It helps make you into the person you were meant to be."

I think this was one of the most emotional and strongest parts of the entire book. That kiss…I mean…that kiss…BEAUTIFUL. And Tyler telling her she could count on him. Always.

“You are very important to me. It doesn’t matter if you never accept me or what lies between us. If you need me, I’m here for you. Tomorrow, ten years from now, it doesn’t matter. And you know me well enough to know I don’t make idle declarations of commitment.
(…)
“The offer is there now and forever, whether or not you acknowledge it. But before you go, I’m going to ask you to do one more thing. It’s simple and if you do it, I’ll consider your mentoring requirement fulfilled.”
(…)
“I want you to ask me to kiss you and mean it, rather than me making you do it. If you do that, I’ll let you leave.”
(…)
“Tyler, please kiss me.” It came out as a whisper of sound.
Bringing his body close up against her, he put his hands on her waist. Moved them around to the vulnerable small of her back to press her breasts to his chest. His lips hovered over hers, his eyes golden lights flickering like the warmth of a welcoming fire, lulling her, hypnotizing her.
“Tyler.”
There was no question, just his name, and he seemed to understand that. He closed the distance, settling his lips on hers, the heat of his mouth seducing her to part her lips, welcome him in. Her body melted into his with a sigh that seemed to come from every nerve, every cell, saying this is where she wanted to be, where she wanted to belong.

[Baba]

Mirror of My Soul. I think I could quote the entire book.

One of the most beautiful love letters ever.

Dearest Marguerite:
You've taught me a great deal about stillness. About the many things that can drift into your mind and heart when you shut down the barricades created by noise. Unexpected gifts of insight, revelation and wisdom. (…)
But you taught me that love is found in stillness. It is the space between objects. It's the star you can't see if you look directly at it in the night sky, but if you look away, look forward, you see it in your peripheral vision, beside you, watching over you. If you lie down on the earth it's there, beneath you, cradling you. (…)
You're my angel, my tormentor, my woman, my love.(…)

"All I am, I offer to you, I give to you. I'm yours."
"Sometimes, I think it's like a fable," he said. "One powerful god released all the evil things on the world. Another god, a god of light, could not undo what the other god had done, but he could give us something to make life worth living. So he gave us love."
"I'm working on it." He met her gaze. "Working on sharing with you. But I've been places where there are too many dead and I helped increase the body count. Each of those lives meant something to someone. And to the person themselves. But whatever lies beyond…You've helped me remember why it's worth fighting. Living. Even when the lines get so confusing you think you're losing your mind."
This is a fantastic quote:
"Love is not temporary. It endures everything even if it changes form. Even when it must be put away to handle harsher things, it's always there, ready to be called."


"So hear my words as a counselor and be guided by them. But also be guided by your love for her. For if we can't bring a child out of darkness and save her soul with love, then I'm afraid there's little hope for the world."

“We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That’s the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn’t protect us from that pain. After meeting Tyler Winterman I firmly believe he would sacrifice the world to go back in time and do just that for you.”
"I want you to make love to me. I want to go to your room, your bed, be under you, feel you inside me, see your eyes, feel your body and know…we're together. I don't know if that's love or just need, but I know I need you. I need that with you. I need what I've never known and I need it from you. Only you. And it may destroy everything or build something. I really don't know. I just know…Please make love to me."

"Tyler." She looked up at him. "This is blasphemous." He couldn't resist the heat of his desire, not with her mouth wet with rain and his kiss. Her neck and breasts were beaded with drops while the soft pinkness of her flesh showed through the cotton dress. Lovely, natural.
"This isn't sin." He managed the words in a voice thick with want. "It's sacred. Everything I do with you, every touch, every kiss, every word murmured in reverence against your flesh, is sacred. And you're cold. I want to warm you.”


It made her chest hurt, how much she felt in this moment. She knew she should not say anything impetuously. But under the light of the stained glass window, the flickering candlelight of their shared memories, it felt like simple unexamined honesty. No matter what the darkness brought back to her tomorrow.
"I'm in love with you.”


"I don't need to be babied. I've taken care of myself for a long time."
"You need all the babying you can get, angel. And something's bothering you. Are you going to tell me what's going on?"
"Go to hell." She slammed down the phone.

She tightened her chin and her resolve. "I didn't expect to see you so soon."
"I was told to go to hell. My connecting flight was delayed so I thought I'd drop in."


One of my very favorite quotes:

"It's not about fear. It's about never feeling clean, spending years scrubbing your soul raw so you can eat without feeling nauseous, can look in the mirror and meet your own eyes when you put on makeup, brush your hair. To learn to be strong, to run your life and not be a victim of it, knowing in your heart that everything you've built is sitting on a foundation that can sink at any time. And you build it anyway, on faith alone that it won't be shattered, when everything in your life tells you that faith is a fucking joke, but you do it anyway. You do it anyway.(…)"


"When you jumped from that building, I died," he said simply, his voice a whisper in her ear. "I was so certain that I was going to lose you that I haven't known how to feel or think since, beyond the basic steps of caring for you. There's this rage in me, this anger. Every time I touch you, I want to hold you so tightly that I'll see pain in your face so it matches what's raging inside of me. So I'm afraid to let it show. I don't know what to do with it. I love you so much, Marguerite. There are no words for this kind of love. It's not pretty or romantic, it's as visceral as sex or breathing, something undeniable, necessary to go on living, for anything else to matter."

I ALWAYS LOVE seeing a strong man coming undone.

Do you want that for Gen and Chloe? If you're going to take yourself out, do it with flame. Burn it all away, so there's nothing left but ashes, so we can still imagine everything we valued and loved…"
He swung before she anticipated him. His fist went through her sheetrock as if it wasn't there, shattering paint and substance.

(…)

"You'll promise me. And you'll never betray that promise, or I swear to God it will kill me. Do you understand that? Do you know how much you mean to me? Even if you don't want me, you have to give me this."
"I promise, I promise." She reached up, gathered him to her. He came inch by resisting inch until his face was against her neck. Suddenly he gave, dropping to his knees, his arms surrounding her so they were pressed against each other thigh to thigh, heart to heart. He pulled her in so tightly against him she couldn't breathe, but that didn't matter. Suddenly the world was about more than herself, more than about her pain and it was easier to let go of it to hold him in her arms, to give him comfort.

"When a child is brought into the world with loving parents, that child learns to smile, laugh, love, be stubborn. She learns to appreciate the reasons worth living. In that regard, you've been my parent over the past several months. I wasn't alive until I met you. You brought me into this world, delivered me here and helped me see that. You bound me to you, made me want to be bound to you. A parent is supposed to unconditionally love, protect against harm, care for the child, hold and shelter her. Lovers help each other discover passion and longing, understand that same type of love can be given without the binding of blood. You've been all those things to me."

She bowed her head. "I am a Mistress to others; you are the Master of me. Of my heart, mind and soul."








And of course I LOVED when Tyler made love to Marguerite to Unchained Melody. It was a real highlight!

And last but not least I want to see Tyler like this…holding a baby in his arms. Joey…please write a whole book or a long novella or whatever but please let this happen because Tyler would be a fantastic dad! We already talked about them adopting a street kid. Maybe someone could put a baby in front of Tea Leaves?

[littleKitten]

Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "I read last night, it was soooo intense I was reading very slowly.... and then I fell asleep. I am at 82%, but I cannot think of a status to post at this stage....."

Hope you gals had a great holiday! SueBee what movie are your gifs from, I feel like I've seen it before but can't come up with the name?

[littleKitten]

Baba I never really pictured either of them (view spoiler)[ with children, just the two of them enjoying each other (hide spoiler)] But of course if Joey writes another involving these two I wouldn't hesitate to pick it up and devour it.

[SueBee★bring me an alpha!★]

OMG B! Absolutely beautiful!!!!!! Love!
[sigh!] Tyler and a newborn.....
So I sold my friend Tokies on this idea as far as kids:
* Adopt a street child a la 10 years old
* Then somehow through their charity work they encounter a young pregnant woman.. she leaves her baby at a door step for them to raise. US has a law allowing mother to do so with newborn within a few days of birth no questions asked....

[Baba]

littleKitten wrote: "Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "I read last night, it was soooo intense I was reading very slowly.... and then I fell asleep. I am ..."

We've had a good time, hope yours was great too!

[Baba]

littleKitten wrote: "Baba I never really pictured either of them [spoilers removed] But of course if Joey writes another involving these two I wouldn't hesitate to pick it up and devour it."

I know it's on her mind. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing them as parents!! :))

[Baba]

SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "OMG B! Absolutely beautiful!!!!!! Love!
[sigh!] Tyler and a newborn.....
So I sold my friend Tokies on this idea as far as kids:
* Adopt a street child a la 10 years old
* Then somehow through th..."

Lol I'm glad it's to your liking Sue! I saw this pic and had to think about Tyler. Sooooooooo sweet! The way he acts around kids is wonderful. Love him just a little bit more. *sigh* :))))
Thanks for enlightening me about US laws. I didn't know that.

[SueBee★bring me an alpha!★]

Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "OMG B! Absolutely beautiful!!!!!! Love!
[sigh!] Tyler and a newborn.....
So I sold my friend Tokies on this idea as far as kids:
* Adopt a street child a la 10 ..."

LOL! I have it all figured out, he he. Now if I can just get Ms. Hill to actually write it...
Yeah Tyler with a baby... [le sigh]

[Baba]

Joey's message:

That is a lovely pic! You're not the first one who've campaigned for M&T to have a baby; the muse has been pretty clear, tho…

...that if they adopt, it will likely be an older child, since she's been in the system and seen what happens to the "non-babies"--

Ok, no baby but they will have a kid eventually. :)

[SueBee★bring me an alpha!★]

Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "Joey's message:

That is a lovely pic! You're not the first one who've campaigned for M&T to have a baby; the muse has been pretty clear, tho…

...that if they adopt, it will likely be an older chi..."

OK, the baby has been ruled out?

[Baba]

SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "Joey's message:

That is a lovely pic! You're not the first one who've campaigned for M&T to have a baby; the muse has been pretty clea..."

Yes, no baby, Sue. It will be an older kid.

[SueBee★bring me an alpha!★]

Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "Joey's message:

That is a lovely pic! You're not the first one who've campaigned for M&T to have a ..."

OK thanks B! I was hoping for BOTH!!!! Happy New 2014 my friend!

[Baba]

SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "SueBee★bring me an alpha!★ wrote: "Baba ♥♥♥ Tyler, Marcus, Dean, Tate, Dan, Ty & Hunter wrote: "Joey's message:

That is a lovely pic!..."

Lol Yes, me too! Right back at you! :) xxx

[SueBee★bring me an alpha!★]

; )))