Bedmates Quotes

“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn’t just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn’t care, because it was all about them.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates

“All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates

“Then he gave me a sweet kiss as if I was his one and only lover.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates

“Having random sex the way Tania did sounded kinda...hollow. I didn’t want to live in a Hollowland.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates

“It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting to date, hooking up, wanting to hook up—it was relationships, relationships, relationships everywhere. Guys checking out girls, girls checking out guys. Dudes checking out dudes, chicks checking out chicks. Fuck! That’s what being a teenager was all about.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates

“I didn’t know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates

“Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates