Escapist Romantic

“I’ll never get used to that.” Me neither, I wanted to say, because this had never happened with another woman.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“In my relationship with Paul, I’d been in the position of eroticising the giving of pleasure rather than the taking of it. To do it, I’d performed some kind of mental gymnastics early in my marriage that made it A-OK for me to get Paul panting, even if he rolled over in bed and fell asleep right after he got what he wanted, not feeling like he needed to return the favour. No, love isn’t transactional; it isn’t tit-for-tat. But damn me if it doesn’t wither and die when only one person is doing all the giving.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“For a moment, I wondered if an alien invasion would be all that bad. America had clearly lost the plot and couldn’t be trusted to make rational decisions, based on the felon in chief currently running the country into the ground.”
― Sabrina Cross, Sentient Pen15 from Outer Space

“She, like me, snuggled on her demon’s lap. The stress that used to permanently live on her face was gone and there was a type of calm there I’d never seen before. I love that for her, almost as much as I loved it for me.”
― Sabrina Cross, Tangled