Resist Quotes

“God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
'Fuck you. I'm going to fuck you. That's my verb.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“Was there anyone before you?

You might have thought so at the the time.

I feel like no one's ever loved me before.

I'm sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“The truth is that I love you. The rest is unnecessary complication.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“It’s all I want. We are bound. I can’t be unfaithful to you any more than the sky can be unfaithful to the sea.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“I feel like no one’s ever loved me before.”
“I’m sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“Give me a number between one and ten.”
“Two.”
“Forget that, then. Between five and ten.”
“Seven.”
“That’s how many times you’re coming before sunrise...”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“It’s very simple,” I said, my voice clipped and brusque. “His belt is for holding up his pants, binding me, and hurting me. His body, any part of it, is to give me pleasure and pain. If he gives any other woman either of those things with his body or any clothing accessory, it’s cheating.” I turned to him. “The fact that we were officially broken up notwithstanding.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“…the only way to do that was to make the trouble she was causing seem unimportant. It was a good strategy, and I was failing at it.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“…and believed him despite my better judgment. I forgave him despite my misgivings. I loved him just because I did.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“It’s wrong to want to protect you? To keep you above my shit? A goddess?”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“I was many things. I was submissive. I was masochistic. I was trusting. I was a sexual slave. But obedient? Not as much.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“You may not love her any more, but you respect her. Which is more than I can say for how you feel about me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“All my lies are white”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“Yes, Jonathan, yes. We’ll be over. I love you. I love your past, no matter what it was. I love your present, and I want to be your future. But lying will break us. One day you’ll wake up and realize I don’t really know you, and it’ll be too late to bring me close. That’ll be it, whether you leave me or not. We’ll be over.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“A part of me smiled, but it wasn't my mouth. - Jonathan”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist