Past Pleasures Quotes

“When she finally pulled away from him—much to Aley’s stuttering forward reluctance—he wanted only to echo Aley’s words:

“Oh! Do it again.”
― Charlotte Stein, Past Pleasures

“You know, kissing,” she said, as though this was just going to be a demonstration. Which it apparently was, because suddenly she found herself leaning forward and—

It lasted no more than a moment. Barely anything at all, really. And yet when she pulled back, she could read the effect it’d had, all over his face. It hummed through him, visibly. His big eyes swallowed her whole.”
― Charlotte Stein, Past Pleasures

“He had lovely eyes, really—not assessing, at all, but big and dark and…waiting.”
― Charlotte Stein, Past Pleasures