Reawakening Quotes

“Kiss him back? That seemed like a ridiculously unobtainable goal. She’d only just remembered that the word was kiss, for God’s sake. Her eyes were wide and her body had turned to stone and his mouth was so, so soft. Unbearably soft, really. He didn’t push, and he didn’t pressurize her into anything further, and his lips just molded against hers as though they’d always meant to get around to it.”
― Charlotte Stein, Reawakening

“I love you more than I’ve ever loved anything, you know, June. I love you enough to scare me. But I want you to be happy; I want you to be with who you want to be with, not who you have to be with.”
― Charlotte Stein, Reawakening

“No, baby,” he said. “I ain’t never satisfied when it comes to you. Even when I’m right there touching you, I want more of you.”
― Charlotte Stein, Reawakening

“That’s okay—you know why? Because I could. And I’d do it again in a heartbeat if anything laid a hand on you, I swear to God I would.”

It was a surprise, how fierce the words came out. Also a surprise—how hard he kissed her after she’d said it. In fact, it wasn’t a kiss at all. It came out much more like he’d decided to bury himself in her, immediately. As though he could just suffocate inside her body if he really tried hard enough.”
― Charlotte Stein, Reawakening

“You know, there’s nothing you could tell me that would change my mind about you.”

“That’s ‘cause you know me now, June. You don’t ever want to know about me then. I don’t want to know about me then.”

“Think I would have ever ripped my back open on barbed wire to get away from you?”

“No—no, Jesus, June. Are you crazy? I could never, I could never—”

“Then I’m okay knowing you, whenever. I don’t care what you say—you’re a good guy. You’re the best kind of guy. The things you’ve done for me, I—”

She couldn’t speak, then. The glow was almost completely gone—it would never return if she started bawling.

“Hey, hey—okay. Okay, baby. It’s okay.”
― Charlotte Stein, Reawakening

“Aw, honey—you sound real ready for it. You always get like this? All on edge like this, just about a second away from coming, before we’ve even started?”

How did he know? She didn’t even know and she was the one about to do it.

“You know, most women can’t come easy, this way. But it’s good to know you can, ‘cause baby I’m gonna work you so good on my cock, I swear to God.”
― Charlotte Stein, Reawakening

“And Jamie didn’t want her either, even though he’d kissed her like her mouth had been made of candy in the middle of a candy-drought. He’d probably just slipped, and fell. Onto her lips.”
― Charlotte Stein, Reawakening