Re Quotes

“Revenge that can stop itself,” she said, “has begun to become something else.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“But I would remember sooner that a beautiful story can become a locked room.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“She preferred appearing, like a draft under a locked door or a crime with good tailoring.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“The kiss was gentle at first, attentive, like she was listening through the lips.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“With him. With you. With the fact that I can want him and then sit here and want you and not know whether that makes me false or greedy or just completely ordinary in a way no one bothered to mention.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“Safety was what adults wrapped around cages before handing girls the key from the outside.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“Guilt is what people use when they want to feel moral without changing anything.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“I am furious with discipline.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“I disapprove of men who mistake geography for permission.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“My world was very fond of telling young women that any room where desire stopped hiding must be crude, dangerous, desperate — or all three — and because my world lied often but with excellent diction, I had believed at least the outline.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“The danger to reputation did not begin when girls spoke. It began when adults decided silence was cheaper.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“We do not expose girls. We expose the men who counted on their silence. Reputation is not innocence. Proof will follow.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“A convenient lie, because revenge is easier to plan when people mistake silence for improvement.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“When feral is all you’ve got left, fierce is the only way forward.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“Everything may be asked," they said. "Nothing may be taken. Attention. Touch. Privacy. Silence.Forgiveness. None of it is owed because it is wanted.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story